LETTER: Why COVID-19 Demonstrates Our Need for a Basic Income

LETTER: Why COVID-19 Demonstrates Our Need for a Basic Income

While it’s true that individuals who get money every month regardless of whether they have a job are happier and more secure, don’t usually work less, don’t usually get addicted to drugs, are more free to work how they want to work, and might struggle less with health problems and have better educational outcomes, these individual benefits would never be worth the cost of a full UBI.

Yet these individual benefits are the only benefits that can be shown to exist with a small scale study.

We’ll only see the real ways a UBI might change our society for the better […]

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