Hello Reddit. I made a comment on r/canada on an article about Universal Basic Income, and how I'm receiving it as part of a pilot program in Ontario. There were numerous AMA requests, so here I am, happy to oblige.
In this pilot project, a few select cities in Ontario were chosen, where people who met the criteria (namely, if you're single and live under $34,000/year or if you're a couple living under $48,000) you were eligible to receive a basic income that supplements your current income, up to $1400/month. It was a random lottery. I went to an information session and applied, and they randomly selected two control groups - one group to receive basic income payments, and another that wouldn't, but both groups would still be required to fill out surveys regarding their quality of life with or without UBI. I was selected to be in the control group that receives monthly payments.
AMA!
EDIT: Holy shit, I did not expect this to blow up. Thank you everyone. Clearly this is a very important, and heated discussion, but one that's extremely relevant, and one I'm glad we're having. I'm happy to represent and advocate for UBI - I see how it's changed my life, and people should know about this. To the people calling me lazy, or a parasite, or wanting me to die... I hope you find happiness somewhere. For now though friends, it's past midnight in the magical land of Ontario, and I need to finish a project before going to bed. I will come back and answer more questions in the morning. Stay safe, friends!
EDIT 2: I am back, and here to answer more questions for a bit, but my day is full, and I didn't expect my inbox to die... first off, thanks for the gold!!! <3 Second, a lot of questions I'm getting are along the lines of, "How do you morally justify being a lazy parasitic leech that's stealing money from taxpayers?" - honestly, I don't see it that way at all. A lot of my earlier answers have been that I'm using the money to buy time to work and build my own career, why is this a bad thing? Are people who are sick and accessing Canada's free healthcare leeches and parasites stealing honest taxpayer money? Are people who send their children to pu
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What do you think, and do you support it, share you ideas below
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)
> Canada's forgotten universal basic income experiment.
> As one of just a handful of real-life basic income trials that has taken place over the past half century, little did they know that more than 40 years later, this experiment would be at the centre of the discussion regarding the merits of introducing basic income on a larger scale.
> In total, the scheme ran for more than four years, with the primary goal of investigating whether a basic income reduced the incentive to work, one of the main public concerns at the time regarding such schemes.
> For Eric Richardson, the youngest of six children who was aged 10 when the experiment began, the introduction of basic income meant a trip to the dentist for the first time.
> One of the things we do know from the Mincome experiment is that basic income does not appear to discourage the recipients from working - one of the major concerns politicians have always held about such schemes.
> "All the experiments so far have only considered whether basic income affects the willingness to work of those receiving the extra payments," Mason says.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Automation and outsourcing have been hollowing out the middle class for decades (the Great Decoupling) and a lot of jobs that were lost due to COVID will not return. If you were to give all citizens 18+ a $2,000/month UBI to cover rent, bills, basic necessities, would this help recover the economy faster? Would it cause massive inflation?
Just curious of your thoughts, thanks.
