UBI, or universal basic income, is a form of direct cash assistance to help the most vulnerable get back on their feet. A new study in Denver suggests it works.
  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Do we have any sort of previous example of this happening? Was this ever tested? If no: a test is seemingly well worth it.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      This isn’t directed at you, this is for the other dude, but also answers your question a little. The entire US was given checks during the pandemic, did it make you lazy?

        • cricket97@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          Not really. There is a big difference when the free money is guaranteed over a long period of time. I don’t think it takes any extraordinary leaps in logic that people would stop working if they were given a bunch of money every month.

      • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        The entire US was given checks during the pandemic, did it make you lazy?

        I mean, I spent a year wearing sweat pants and hardly leaving my house.

        • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Because you were rolling in checks or because it was unhealthy to do so? Having worked full-time and part time as a freelancer, job burnout and needing recovery isn’t laziness.

          • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            It was a joke… I was still working full time, just from home. And I didn’t go anywhere because there was a pandemic going on and I didn’t want to be around people. But the fact that I was 100% in sweatpants and lounging around the house for a year did feel lazy, but had nothing to do with the checks coming in from the government.

      • cricket97@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        There’s a big difference when its guaranteed over a period of time. Then you can actually feel justified in quitting whatever job you have since you know the money will keep coming in.

      • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Fuck yeah it did. I was making the same on unemployment as I would have being at work. I wanted to stay laid off.

        • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          What you wanted to do and what you did are 2 different things. You’re overworked and probably not doing a job that you want to do. That isn’t laziness, that’s job unsatisfaction.

          • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, but that probably applies to a lot of people. Why would anyone choose to do all the bullshit (but necessary) jobs if they can get paid the same for sitting at home?

            • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Is that what rich people do? Do billionaires sit home and do nothing? I think all of you saying it causes laziness aren’t living your best lives.