<story><title>People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/basic-income-mcmaster-report-1.5485729</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>From my personal point of view, basic income SHOULD disincentivise work; it&amp;#x27;s a boost for society, health, well-being, children, etc.&lt;p&gt;Because in the current economy, a lot of people have to work unreasonable hours, multiple jobs, and have all people in a family work to make ends meet, at the cost of personal health and well-being, personal time, having children at all or having more children, getting married and buying a house, etc.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m stressed because I&amp;#x27;m earning less than I spend, my girlfriend is stressed because she doesn&amp;#x27;t have a job yet and due to personal reasons may find it hard to get, keep, and work enough hours at a job, etc. If she earned a basic income we&amp;#x27;d be out of the woods already. If I then also earned one on top of my job we&amp;#x27;d be VERY comfortable.&lt;p&gt;(And keep in mind I would already pay for both of our basic incomes through the income taxes I&amp;#x27;m paying at the moment. I&amp;#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>I agree. Letting workers leave abusive employment situations is a benefit of UBI. UBI might even totally reorient the idea of work in that now an employer has the incentive to keep workers happy that must be balanced with the profit incentive.</text></comment>
<story><title>People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/basic-income-mcmaster-report-1.5485729</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>From my personal point of view, basic income SHOULD disincentivise work; it&amp;#x27;s a boost for society, health, well-being, children, etc.&lt;p&gt;Because in the current economy, a lot of people have to work unreasonable hours, multiple jobs, and have all people in a family work to make ends meet, at the cost of personal health and well-being, personal time, having children at all or having more children, getting married and buying a house, etc.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m stressed because I&amp;#x27;m earning less than I spend, my girlfriend is stressed because she doesn&amp;#x27;t have a job yet and due to personal reasons may find it hard to get, keep, and work enough hours at a job, etc. If she earned a basic income we&amp;#x27;d be out of the woods already. If I then also earned one on top of my job we&amp;#x27;d be VERY comfortable.&lt;p&gt;(And keep in mind I would already pay for both of our basic incomes through the income taxes I&amp;#x27;m paying at the moment. I&amp;#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>richardlblair</author><text>This is especially true where the trial was run. Those places are in a bad spot and three isn&amp;#x27;t much to lift them up.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job&lt;p&gt;Me too. I came up very poor, but access to a good education allowed me to learn how to code at 16... We need to raise these people up. We are paying the taxes to support it, we just need a government who doesn&amp;#x27;t misappropriate funds.</text></comment>