(© picture-alliance/dpa) The idea of a basic income will hopefully be further developed, Kaleva writes: “The experiment should provide an answer to the burning question of whether a basic income will boost employment or not. The goal of a basic income is to simplify the social security system, to remove obstacles to motivation and to reduce the stifling bureaucracy that tends to lead to passivity. The relationship between incomes and social benefits is currently a complex one, where everything affects everything else and there is no incentive for personal initiative. … Hopefully the experiment being conducted by the social […]
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