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mk  ·  3034 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits

theadvancedapes

It will be very interesting to see this play out. There is so much more theory and opinion surrounding this approach than there is experience.





thenewgreen  ·  3034 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It says that the Netherlands have been trialling the approach. I wonder if there is preliminary data there? veen -any idea?

veen  ·  3034 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Basic income is hot & happening here. Just today, a few big municipalities voted to deregulate social benefits - a move against the newly introduced Participation Law, which introduced more rules and regulations to social benefits.

A lot of cities are developing plans for basic income experiments, but I don't think any one of them has started giving money away yet. It's a popular idea here in no small part because the organization that controls and regulates social benefits is so awfully inefficient at getting people to work again.