Basic Income - Pilot Project 💰💸
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 29, 2024 10:19 AM)
Basic Income - Pilot Project
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EUR 1,200 extra per month (about the same in USD).
Just like that - this opportunity sounded too tempting.
At the beginning of 2021 more than two million people applied to take part in the basic income pilot project,
the first German long-term study to empirically test unconditional cash payments.
Three years later the experiment ends and data collection is officially complete.
T-online talked to Susann Fiedler, Professor of Economics and Psychology at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and part of the research team for the pilot project.
Frau Fiedler, with the end of the survey the hot phase begins for you as a researcher.
When would the basic income pilot project be a success for you?
F: That depends on how you define success. For me the project is already a success.
We've created awareness that there needs to be more evidence-based decisions in politics.
That politicians act on the basis of scientific findings.
And not just based on gut feeling and assumptions, because with that we're ill-advised.
You allude to one of the biggest criticisms of the unconditional basic income,
the assumption that recipients no longer have an incentive to work.
What if your study proves exactly that?
F: Then that's how it is. Then we've a database on which we can talk.
I am neither an opponent nor a supporter of an unconditional basic income.
My goal is to find out how it actually works. That gets us further.
Not arguments like
"I believe"
or
"I think"
or
"But my grandma said…"
.
What questions do you hope to find answers to?
F: I'm particularly interested in the consequences of a basic income on life satisfaction.
We talk much today about how society can become healthier. Maybe basic income recipients have less depression? Are you more optimistic about the future? Do you perceive yourself as more autonomous? And then of course there is the big question about the effect on work. Do they take the money and go part time? These are all questions that we can hopefully clarify.
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….
….
How can you be so sure that changes in participants are only attributed to the payments?
F: Due to a special feature - the large control group.
We made sure to create statistical twins. A basic income recipient is confronted with several similar people in the control group. They are the same as the recipients in age, level of education, stage of life and place of residence, but receive no money other than compensation for expenses.
When can we expect the results?
F: They're planned for January 2025.
Now it's just a matter of collecting the data and summarizing the results. I'm also very curious to see what the final effects look like. Such long-term studies are rather unusual for me. I usually go to the lab in the morning with my research question and have the data in the evening.
You researched basic income for over three years now.
Will the project be finished at the beginning of 2025 or will it continue?
F: Of course we like to think big. The first step was to ask: What does additional money do?
Next, it would be interesting to see what effect financial security alone has.
And then there's the question of financing.
There's already an initial model study on this
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, but that could also be implemented.
https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/aktuelles/verbraucher/id_100412978/grundeinkommen-pilotprojekt-beendet-termin-fuer-ergebnisse-steht-fest.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-de-de
May 27, 2024
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According to the
"initial model study"
about a trillion Euros are needed.
75% is already paid without anyone having to spend any money.
Social benefits would be unnecessary because the basic income is higher anyway.
Administrative costs are eliminated and certain tax privileges are waived.
https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/ratgeber/verbraucher/id_100230890/grundeinkommen-fuer-jeden-diw-studie-zeigt-finanzierungsmodelle.html
The remaining 25% is the real financing gap.
To generate new money, taxes could be increased.
Or my favourite topic:
Social security contributions on machine hours.
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 29, 2024 10:40 AM)
by /. May 29, 2024 12:26 PM
Member since April 2, 2019
"Social security contributions on machine hours."
Please explain what this means. I don't know what is meant by 'machine hours.'
When people work, social security contributions are also paid along with their wages.
If a machine does the same work, social security should also be paid (health, unemployment, pension).
And now
just
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 29, 2024 09:48 PM)
by ∂³∑x² May 29, 2024 11:38 PM
Member since May 7, 2024
Cockatoo Meows Like a Cat
[video]
Ahhhh, sooooo
cuuuuuuteeeee
!!!
🦜
But in the wrong thread.
You should've posted that to the German Cockroach. 🪳
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Pets-and-Animals/
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 29, 2024 10:43 PM)
by ∂³∑x² May 29, 2024 11:50 PM
Member since May 7, 2024
I'm just showing you what a big cock does to a bunch of pussies around here Tara
Typical macho misconception, Juanita.
These sugary animal videos almost always deprive us of the
'happy ending'
.
It's easy to forget who our cute killers really are.
Whoosh, the
"big cock"
is castrated quicker than he thinks! 🩸
It's hard to explain to youngsters why there isn't much left to bury of cockatoo
"Coco"
.
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 29, 2024 10:57 PM)
by ∂³∑x² May 30, 2024 12:47 AM
Member since May 7, 2024
You keep on presuming that all people are as domesticated as cats and dogs are these days Tara
That's all part of the game
You didn't and you don't understand at all what I'm
"presuming"
.
You're trapped in your own prejudices, Juanita.
Keep dreaming about your
"big cock"
.
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