• Merlin13245@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is not even really a proper implimentation of UBI anyways right? They are injecting more capital into the local economy of course people were better off…

    I still dont see this as a proper experiment of UBI since it’s not self-contained within a society.

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      1 year ago

      Okay, great. Then let’s actually do it. Everything below 100 percent implementation is a success so let’s stop handwringing over the size of the experiment and pull the trigger.

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        1 year ago

        In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.

        In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where “the system” generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.