Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy
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Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy
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Jack Sargeant
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/welsh-labours-ubi-pilot-is-a-step-to-fixing-our-broken-economy/
Jack Sargeant
Faced with rising poverty and the threat of automation, the Welsh government is rolling out a Universal Basic Income pilot – its aim is to show that bold policies can transform our broken economy.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/welsh-labours-ubi-pilot-is-a-step-to-fixing-our-broken-economy/
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Re: Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy
Does anyone know of what happened to Finland's trial of the UBI (2019) ?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/the-results-finlands-universal-basic-income-experiment-are-in-is-it-working/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47169549
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/the-results-finlands-universal-basic-income-experiment-are-in-is-it-working/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47169549
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Re: Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy
Pintel wrote:Does anyone know of what happened to Finland's trial of the UBI (2019) ?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/the-results-finlands-universal-basic-income-experiment-are-in-is-it-working/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47169549
06/05/2020
Results of Finland's basic income experiment: small employment effects, better perceived economic security and mental wellbeing
The basic income recipients were more satisfied with their lives and experienced less mental strain than the control group. They also had a more positive perception of their economic welfare. The interpretation of the employment effects of the experiment is complicated by the introduction of the activation model in 2018.
https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN08GY2nIrZo/content/results-of-the-basic-income-experiment-small-employment-effects-better-perceived-economic-security-and-mental-wellbeing
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Re: Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy
UBI is a really revolutionary fundamental right.
It has implications that will be going well beyond the narrow scope or its premises.
Many rights like free health care, pensions or free education have resulted in other emergent properties that were not fully predicted.
For instance, the link between universal education and birth rate.
UBI even more so.
But, like any other society changing reforms it will be strenuously resisted both by the people in power and by sectors of the dispossed that will see their dreams of advancement, obtained by raising along the established emancipation ladders based on the exploitation of others (I work hard, buy an house, and try to pay as little as possible for the welfare of those that do not succeed).
The call for UBI will become a major theme of future reform movements like the previously mentioned rights had been at some point.
It has implications that will be going well beyond the narrow scope or its premises.
Many rights like free health care, pensions or free education have resulted in other emergent properties that were not fully predicted.
For instance, the link between universal education and birth rate.
UBI even more so.
But, like any other society changing reforms it will be strenuously resisted both by the people in power and by sectors of the dispossed that will see their dreams of advancement, obtained by raising along the established emancipation ladders based on the exploitation of others (I work hard, buy an house, and try to pay as little as possible for the welfare of those that do not succeed).
The call for UBI will become a major theme of future reform movements like the previously mentioned rights had been at some point.
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