If you had an unconditional ground income, would you work?

If you had an unconditional ground income, would you work?

Finland made an experiment: the state is paying a fixed, unconditional basic income for 2,000 chosen jobless people, expecting they can find better new jobs this way. That are 560 euros (635 USD) per month to people aged between 25 and 58. Bloomberg.com

This amount of money provides only a minimum level of survival in Finland, in a very expensive country. In theory, people wanting to advance in life need to find more rewarding, more profitable jobs. The two-years experiment ends next year but after the first year the results are neutral:

“During the first year of the experiment, the recipients of a basic income were no better or worse than the control group at finding employment in the open labor market”. But at least they had “less stress symptoms”, “less difficulties to concentrate and less health problems” – wrote Bloomberg.
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If you had an unconditional ground income, would you work?

• Yes

• No

• Only a little bit

• Only if I like the job

• Yesss, time to be full-time Steemian!

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