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Basic Income is a utopian fantasy which sounds good but will never work because of human nature. A bit like communism.

It's good that Finland will do a very limited test. When it inevitably fails, the world will be able to say "if Finland can't get it too work, then what chance any other country?".

Also, here is a quote from the article that is complete nonsense.

"In European countries, we have arrived at a situation where large numbers of people are unemployed, with very little chance that these numbers will go down in the near future. This is particularly due to the (proven) fact that automation and robotization are destroying more jobs than innovation can create."

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You claim that basic income can't possibly work, and that unemployment increasing over time is nonsense, but you've not provided any reason why. How is basic income so similar to communism it should be written off without trying?

I didn't say Basic Income should be written off without trying. I said it should be tried so that it can fail and be seen to be utopian nonsense.

I didn't say that unemployment increasing over time was nonsense, I said that blaming automization was nonsense.

I thought I recognized your name so I looked at your post history. Half your posts have the word "nonsense" in them - it's present a total of 7 times on the first page alone, in forms such as "extremist nonsense", "absurd nonsense", "utopian nonsense"...

You sure like to call whatever you disagree with nonsense. Common theme in every single one of your post is you provide zero backing for any of it. You're just sitting at your chair on your front porch and yelling at passer-bys.

You still have not provided your line of reasoning WHY it is nonsense. If you have thought this through and have useful insights please share.

No Columbus you can never get to india by sailing the other way, you will fall off the edge of the earth!

Columbus's problem wasn't that people thought the Earth was flat (it was widely known in Europe since Greek times that the Earth was round). His problem was that he got his math badly wrong and severely underestimated the distance to China. The only reason he didn't kill his crew was because there happened to be an unknown continent at such distance as he thought China to be.

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