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Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. (finance.yahoo.com)

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A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates. >

Some participants reported getting new housing, while others saw their employment incomes rise. >

Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. We now know Univeraal Basic Income (UBI) works well, even when it's not remotely enough to live on. People buy transport, or childcare, or medicine, or whatever they really need, to get to work.

My un-generous hot take is that leaders opposed to UBI sure look like they're only opposed, because UBI disrupts their plans to establish a slave class in the social strata.

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Bad idea. Next thing you know these guys will have enough free time to vote. And they’ll probably vote for stupid stuff like child care, education, bicycle infrastructure, and criminalizing food waste. It will basically become illegal to make a profit on basic human needs. And then what’s left for profiting?

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