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Downstream: Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? w/ Will Stronge

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Universal Basic Services and UBI

UBI is not meant to be a stimulus to the job market, all kind of getting people into work. It's about economic security, it's about resilience and so on. People still worked, but they had such huge benefits recorded around things like mental health, trust in the state,. Trust in state services, that's kind of interesting. They asked these questions about how do you feel about your relationship to the community, the state and soon. So all those things improve. The press kind of said that the failure in Finland is not that many more people join the labor market after UBI. That shows you exactly how this idea provokes outrages and is still quite new basically

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