Over the last couple of years, I’ve taken an interest in the rise in discussions on Universal Basic Income (UBI). It’s not often that I write about politics or economics but I wanted to compile the articles I’ve read and distill into one qualitative study on the topic to consider its attractiveness.
In case you aren’t familiar, the idea of universal basic income is to remove the various welfare benefit programmes and provide all citizens with a guaranteed monthly payment. It isn’t designed to be enough to live comfortably but should be enough to scrape by, i.e. above the poverty […]
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