When you are poor, in many ways you can't afford to work, which is why so many basic income pilots focused on low income households show increased work.
When you have some non-zero amount of money, UBI assists work.
There is then some amount of money high enough to reduce work.
If $1,300/mo is so high that people will stop working, why does anyone bother to earn more than that? Why aren't we surrounded by people happily working part-time jobs to earn $1,300/mo to spend the bulk of their time enjoying leisure?
MOST PEOPLE WANT TO EARN MORE THAN POVERTY.
@scottsantens That's literally less than my rent in a shitty apartment with the worst access to transit.
of course I still gotta work.
There's hardly a place in the country you can live on that per month anymore.
But it would definitely *help*
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