Sini Marttinen had lived abroad for five years, in Brussels, Hong Kong, Copenhagen and Edinburgh, when she returned to her Finnish homeland. Because she couldn’t find a steady job straight away, she was allowed to participate in a lottery.
It was a very special lottery: an unconditional basic income was raffled, and Marttinen was lucky. From the beginning of 2017, she received 560 euros a month from the state for two years, unbureaucratically, without conditions and without having to account for her expenses to anyone.
The pilot project helped her on her way to self-employment – “I was able to take […]
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