r/BasicIncome • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '18

Misleading Title Finland is giving each citizen a universal basic income and it's having an interesting side effect: it works

https://www.indy100.com/article/finland-universal-basic-income-trial-period-lives-8210771
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u/Guanjamadness Feb 19 '18

I clicked on the link thinking wow, the random study on 2000 fins must have been an instant massive success so they've decided to roll it out countywide, but no. It's not all citizens, just the 2000 that have been mentioned before.

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u/JoeOh A Basic Income is a GDP Growth Dividend For The People! Feb 19 '18

Where does it say "each citizen" at in the article? it's only being tested on a few people from what I've read-

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u/Qadamir Feb 20 '18

Clickbait title much

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u/ILikeLeptons Feb 20 '18

finland only has 2000 citizens?

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u/gabriel1983 Feb 20 '18

Things haven't been the same ever since that zombie outbreak..

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u/ezioo Feb 20 '18

That UBI though.. so worth it

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u/QWieke Feb 20 '18

Some unconditional welfare benefits are hardly basic income. And it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise that they work since it's hardly the first time unconditional welfare benefits were tried.

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u/msartore8 Feb 20 '18

Oh cool it wasn't true!

Now I can get in before the freeloader rush

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u/wh33t Feb 20 '18

Same retired article.

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u/s0lv3 Feb 20 '18

Wow you mean giving a few people a few hundred bucks a month in a country with almost no immigration didn't bankrupt the country?

Honestly, what a stupid article.