I don’t know how relevant this is now, but here’s a link to another post where I expressed my thoughts on what kind of pitfalls you might most likely face – https://lemmy.world/post/36867409
By the way, what is this phenomenon on Lemmy? Let’s say people are reluctant to read and comment on old posts published just a couple of days or a week ago, but with new ones, it’s a completely different story. What kind of psychology is this? Or it seemed to me?
I don’t trust UBI because I don’t trust the average person to manage their free time and money carefully. This just feels like a road to boredom, followed by doing stupid shit, including drugs.
Anyone who have taken a month+ old vacation probably knows what I’m talking about. There comes a point where you just (unintentionally) start degrading yourself because there is no purpose in your life, whether by playing videogames all day or substance abuse
It’s even worse when you realize most homeless have psychological or physical problems that made them homeless in the first place, and throwing money at them is likely not going to extend their lives if you know what I meant, or fix said problems.
Except studies consistently show UBI counterintuitively incentivizes those on it to work: ‘Finland is the only country to have carried out a nationwide, randomised control trial of UBI. The evaluation found that people receiving basic income were more likely to be in work than those in the control group.’
Also, having a secure financial footing is remarkably effective at alleviating mental health issues and promoting overall wellbeing, leading to more people in the workforce and more people contributing to the economy (ideally, this would benefit everyone but, you know, Neoliberalism…).
Bit of a knee jerk reaction, my man.
Finland. Lol. I live next to it, you gotta understand that the people have a vastly different mindset than in many other places. Hence it being the happiest country on earth. You also gotta understand that people who are using lemmy are likely not the risk people, but everyone loves to base reality on their own subjectivity.
Repeat the same experiment in some poorer US state.
So your take is: let’s throw all those other studies from other countries in the bin then, because it clearly just comes down to ‘mindset’. Wat
No, but when drug abuse is not a problem in the first place, UBI should not make it a thing. Use your common sense. I’m talking about places where you see entire sidewalks stretching miles long with drug addicts. Do you honestly believe giving them money will make them go “oh, drugs bad, maybe I should work”… wat indeed.