• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    My common sense and Milton Friedman liturgies also say that basic income/negative tax would work, but then there are results like this:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-basic-income-study-results-2024-7

    I wonder if all or most studies show that basic income works or just that some selected ones did? But I don’t mind being wrong about this, I like basic income as an idea. I just had the understanding that it doesn’t work in practice.

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      2 months ago

      That study looks like it had positive outcomes

      Archive link https://archive.is/xfCMm

      Recipients had greater agency to make decisions that worked best for their lives and to prepare for the future, from moving neighborhoods to expressing interest in new business ventures," the report’s authors said.