Does universal basic income make us lazy? German study with ‘doppelgangers’ promises answers

Does universal basic income make us lazy? German study with ‘doppelgangers’ promises answers

Workers at a wholesale market in Noida, UP | Representational image | Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan /Bloomberg To make good policy you should have at least a vague notion of what you’re talking about. But when it comes to perhaps the biggest reform proposal around, we just don’t. I’m talking about a Universal Basic Income , a system of unconditional cash payments to everybody in a given jurisdiction.

The case for a UBI runs as follows: It would reduce poverty, make people healthier and give them more dignity. It would also ease the transition of workers who lose their jobs to […]

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