minus-squaretmyakal@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are you in support of UBI?linkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoI read about a pilot program in Canada back in the '70s or '80s that found that fewer people on UBI had jobs, but those people who left the workforce were overwhelmingly new mothers and older teens who were still in school. linkfedilink
minus-squaretmyakal@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are you in support of UBI?linkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoKurt Vonnegut had a fun take on this exact scenario in his first book, Player Piano. linkfedilink
I read about a pilot program in Canada back in the '70s or '80s that found that fewer people on UBI had jobs, but those people who left the workforce were overwhelmingly new mothers and older teens who were still in school.