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.
  • jj4211@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The issue being we’ve never seen an actual trial of UBI. It’s always some sample of the population for a known limited time. UBI as a concept doesn’t lend itself to “trials”, we won’t really know until at least a number of entire cities are indefinitely implementing UBI, and probably would be 3 or 4 years before people start actually acting like it is indefinite.