A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
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I don’t even get this notion.
“Everyone will become a lazy bum!”. Humans are biologically coded with the want to do SOMETHING. If you took current day scenarios of people wanting to not work at all, that’s only because WE HAVE TO WORK to live.
People want to remove stress, not be “lazy”.
And lazy is such a defective term.
A lot of “conventional wisdom” turns out to be just catchy little sayings that vindicate people’s personal attitudes.