ZURICH—A village in northern Switzerland is considering giving each inhabitant 2,500 francs ($2,540 U.S.) a month as an experiment with basic income, with the cash raised by crowd funding.
The idea of paying people money irrespective of whether they work or not has found favour with technology billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Finland launched a pilot project to test the idea last year, and Italy’s new populist government has also pledged to introduce a system of this kind. The idea of paying people money irrespective of whether they work or not has found favour with some social […]
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