This Finnish guy gets a $600 per month ‘basic income’ for doing absolutely nothing

This Finnish guy gets a $600 per month ‘basic income’ for doing absolutely nothing

Earlier this year, in an effort to learn about people’s work habits, Finland launched an experiment giving $600 to 2,000 unemployed Finns every month for two years.

Kela, the federal agency running the experiment, billed it as a modified version of the economic model known as universal basic income, though some people argued it didn’t qualify. Given people had to be unemployed, it wasn’t technically universal.

Juha Jarvinen, one of the 2,000 lucky recipients, was not one of those naysayers.“I was dreaming to get into the test and now I’m here,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur and father of six wrote on his […]

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