Finland determines that free money makes unemployed people happier, except not more likely to work.

[RandomPoster]

Test of Finland's basic income: It creates happiness but not jobs

"The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, or Kela, said "it was not yet possible to draw any firm conclusions" from the first half of the experiment, where about 2,000 randomly selected, unemployed people aged 25-58 got tax-free income of 560 euros ($636) a month with no questions asked."

The article doesn't give much for details regarding how they arrived at the assessment comparing their emotional state to those of unemployment benefits recipients.

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

In theory, it was supposed to make them more willing to accept work because it would not interfere with their pay.

 

[fncceo]

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

So, apparently, money does buy happiness.

 

[Dekster]

I read one story awhile back that said that it didn't really do anything because a lot of the working recipients elected to work fewer hours so it was a wash as far as extra income.

 

[task0778]

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

So, apparently, money does buy happiness.

For those who get free money, yes. But what about those who didn't, wonder how happy they are to see their tax money going to somebody else who didn't earn it.

 

[Weatherman2020]

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

So, apparently, money does buy happiness.

Money don't get everything, it's true
But what it don't get, I can't use
I need money (that's what I want)
That's what I want (that's what I want)
That's what I want (that's what I want)
That's what I want (that's what I want)

 

[blastoff]

I read one story awhile back that said that it didn't really do anything because a lot of the working recipients elected to work fewer hours so it was a wash as far as extra income.

Shocking!

 

[charwin95]

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

So, apparently, money does buy happiness.

I thought it’s always been that way.

 

[Blackrook]

It's not enough money to live on, just pay a few bills, or buy some recreational drugs.

What the socialists really want is to give people enough money so they can live without working in perpetuity.

They figure this new class of totally unemployed, and unemployable, people is to create millions of people who have no choice but to vote for socialist candidates or lose their livelihoods.

It's a very cynical approach, but if socialists pull it off, we live in a society where at least half the people never work.

 

[2aguy]

"Minna Ylikanno, a researcher with Kela, said the basic income recipients appeared less stressed, healthier and more confident in the future than a 5,000-member control group of unemployment benefits recipients."

So, apparently, money does buy happiness.

For those who get free money, yes. But what about those who didn't, wonder how happy they are to see their tax money going to somebody else who didn't earn it.

Those people....who actually worked to earn the money that was then taken and given to people who weren't working.......will shut up, keep working, and keep their heads down if they know what is good for them.....otherwise those people getting the free money have plenty of time to look them up and "deal with" them to make sure they know their place......the left wing geniuses who came up with this idea know that the best way to make their policies work is mass graves, guns and shovels...and enough minions to fill them with those who try to complain...

 

[2aguy]

It's not enough money to live on, just pay a few bills, or buy some recreational drugs.

What the socialists really want is to give people enough money so they can live without working in perpetuity.

They figure this new class of totally unemployed, and unemployable, people is to create millions of people who have no choice but to vote for socialist candidates or lose their livelihoods.

It's a very cynical approach, but if socialists pull it off, we live in a society where at least half the people never work.

And the funny thing is....the socialists never run that process to it's conclusion....where no one is working because they have grown used to a lower standard of living, and have just enough money to get by.....and then the money is no longer being created by a hard working population....then the government starts demanding the people work, who will not work because they were promised they didn't have to...then the goon squads are created...and the mass graves are dug....