Comment by osmala

This basic income experiment has plenty of flaws. Many people get DOUBLE that from government as benefits anyway, so the premise of that experiment is flawed. The disintensives for smallish amount of work still continue. Finland has additional benefits for rent, additional benefits for supported children and increases to standard unemployment benefits for having to support children. This isn't really the basic income as most people understand it. It really doesn't replace benefits bureaucracy with something more streamlined that deals away with disincentives. By disintensives I mean the situation in which reduction of benefits and cost of getting to work eat the salary and there is almost nothing left from the work if its a part time job.