Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the practice of giving regular cash sums to everybody in a population, irrespective of apparent need, as a foundation for their economic lives. It’s one of those idea that sounds crazy when you first hear it, but which makes more sense the more you think about it. A lot of people like the idea of UBI, and I keep hearing about trials that have good results, most recently in a Mastodon thread on “the world’s largest universal basic income experiment ever (“23,000 cash recipients with 5,000 getting UBI for 12 years”). The results as […]
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