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170 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 12 Apr \ on: German experiment gave people UBI and on average they kept working full-time econ
I wouldn't trust this study. It's run by a German NGO called Mein GrundEinkommen - My Basic Income (https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/). They're very much in favor of a UBI, the whole website is about how great it is.
There's no way the results from this study would have been any different, run by an organization like this.
Their poster child (https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/menschen/4816358) was a veterinarian, had been one for 15 years, and was overworked and unhappy. She quit her job, and then got one of the UBI subsidies. (Or probably that's just what they say. I'm guessing the truth is that she got the subsidy, and THEN quit her job, that would make more sense, because they had said earlier that her family relied on her income).
And then she saw the light, and decided to work full time for "climate change", and sustainable tourism.
You do have to be skeptical of the findings and their interpretation, considering it's from an activist organization. That doesn't mean it's wrong, though.
I would like to see more transparency about their methods, as well as a cost-benefit analysis.
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