Swiss town set for universal basic income experiment – A Swiss filmmaker is hoping to show how paying people a guaranteed income could work in practice by conducting a year-long experiment in the town of Rheinau in the canton of Zurich.

Seems to me that many of these tests are centered around how much better people’s lives are when you give them free money. The question has never been "does getting more money improve the lives of people who don’t have much?" That’s like asking "does giving food to a starving man make him less hungry?" The answer is yes. Seriously, just accept "yes" for an answer. The question has always been, "what is the source of the money?"

> The project is the brainchild of Swiss filmmaker Rebecca Panian who was inspired by the 2016 referendum in which Swiss voters […]

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