Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely. - eviltoast
A common question about universal basic income, or UBI, is how people spend the money, but early trials are showing promising results.
  • JamesTBagg@lemmy.world
    34·
    6 months ago

    What makes it worse, those people almost never actually struggled. Otherwise they may have learned to suffer some empathy.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      I’ve watched someone start to empathize and then talk themselves out of it so many times I’ve lost faith in someone’s ability to learn it.