Study: Employment rose among those in free money experiment

I think we can afford it and I think it would make the government _smaller_ - it's a complete rework and simplification of social welfare programs and hopefully taxes as well (if done right).

The thing I dislike is that I believe it is what we call a "nice weather" policy in German. It only works as long as the whole system is running, and it will make people forget that people have to work to create all the things we have.

But the biggest pro argument is that I frees people up. Instead of the poor man's struggle for survival, they can live the rich man's live without worries. And thus be in a much better situation to better themselves. Above study seems to indicate the people will indeed try to better themselves, instead of giving up all ambition.

They cherry-picked the 125 most likely to succeed, and yet full-time employment only improved by 12 percentage points in a strong economy.

There was no real accounting of the money spent. "Less than 1% of the money went to tobacco and alcohol" is a flat lie; there is no way to distinguish items purchased from a debit card swipe. The best they could claim is that users claimed that on a survey, which is meaningless.

The truth is, only one in six (12/72) went from non full time employment to full time employment.

This is not a success story.