A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
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How totally surprising. The results have been the same every time this has been tried, so who could have possibly have foreseen that?
Thank you! Honestly UBI studies only make me feel angry and hopeless anymore, since it’s so clear policy will never change.
Of course not. If people aren’t desperate any more, they’re far harder to control.