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RE: The Basics of Basic Income

in #politics8 years ago

As a Finn, I'm quite pessimistic on this. The experiment will be probably too short to draw any conclusions and it's not going to be full basic income. It will only replace some of the current welfare subsidies. Most of our politicians are really, really stupid (as they are all around the world) so they will probably fuck up this.

The price of living is already very high, thanks for massive taxation and regulation. Especially rents are high, partly because landlords know that current welfare system pays the rent up to a certain amount. Of course rents usually don't go below that amount.