Finland ends universal basic income

[BigL]

Saw this in my LinkedIn feed.

Finland is ending its universal basic income experiment, in which it offered 2,000 randomly chosen unemployed people $685 a month to spend as they liked, reports The New York Times. The Finnish government launched the program hoping it would “send more people into the job market to revive a weak economy,” says The Times. The Nordic country has now moved in the other direction, implementing rules that will cut benefits for unemployed people who are not actively pursuing work.

[BigWes]

Wait, they really thought giving people money for nothing would make them want to go work? Glad they came to their senses.

[3DW5]

What a shock, giving money to people who don't work didn't turn out well.... idiots

[JLivi1224]

And the left is actually pitching this now. I’m willing to bet this is a platform in 2020.

[ultrastealth]

I don't know about the rest of the human race, but the political class is getting dumber and dumber.

[BlackHogDown]

Uncle Bernie's new proposition sounds similar. Cant even begin to understand the logic behind this stuff.

[sailor]

Wait, they really thought giving people money for nothing would make them want to go work? Glad they came to their senses.

I'm not sure, they came to their senses......
perhaps, reality came instead.....

[Neck]

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

[RiverRat1]

What a shock, giving money to people who don't work didn't turn out well.... idiots

Apparently we think it's working just fine here. I bet we give more to our lazy sack 0 crap people than they did.

[3DW5]

Apparently we think it's working just fine here. I bet we give more to our lazy sack 0 crap people than they did.

They also tax the life out of their citizens, but you are correct, we do give way more away than they do in terms of welfare.

[Ætheling]

Scandinavian countries actually make socialism work. This experiment failed but very well could of worked for THEM. They have several things going for them we don't that allows them to do the things they do. Assimilation. They do not have competing cultures like we do. They are the hardest countries to immigrate to and the follow up to ensure assimilation has occurred. They are a homogenous population. They almost all work. They all contribute to society. Because of these things they always rank the highest in standard of living. If you ever get to visit you will see what Im talking about. Gorgeous countries filled with friendly hard working people.

We have let the hordes infiltrate out country and have countless competing cultures and a very heterogeneous population. Hell half of our country is on some form of welfare.

[Ætheling]

This should make everyone on this site jealous of the Nordic countries. They have a constitutionally protected right to the use of their public lands of which make up almost 2/3rds of the countries.

https://www.facebook.com/brutnature/videos/205572869999718/UzpfSTEwMDAwNTQwODUyNTU2Mzo3ODAyODI0Mzg4Mjg3MDA/

They also have these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkiij9dJfcw&feature=share

[flywise]

Scandinavian countries actually make socialism work. This experiment failed but very well could of worked for THEM. They have several things going for them we don't that allows them to do the things they do. Assimilation. They do not have competing cultures like we do. They are the hardest countries to immigrate to and the follow up to ensure assimilation has occurred. They are a homogenous population. They almost all work. They all contribute to society. Because of these things they always rank the highest in standard of living. If you ever get to visit you will see what Im talking about. Gorgeous countries filled with friendly hard working people.

We have let the hordes infiltrate out country and have countless competing cultures and a very heterogeneous population. Hell half of our country is on some form of welfare.

Ask The natives of Sweden if this is true. Their socialist leaders have ruined the country in the last 5-7 years by allowing hundreds of thousands of bottom of the barrel " migrants " in. It may have been true at one time but not today,at least in Sweden

[Drycreek3189]

Uncle Bernie's new proposition sounds similar. Cant even begin to understand the logic behind this stuff.

The logic (theirs) is to attract more voters to the Democrat party.

Libs only have two goals, destroy Conservatives and get re-elected.

[ultrastealth]

Ask The natives of Sweden if this is true. Their socialist leaders have ruined the country in the last 5-7 years by allowing hundreds of thousands of bottom of the barrel " migrants " in. It may have been true at one time but not today,at least in Sweden

This. They are being overrun with middle eastern and african immigrants. The writing is on the wall for them. All of those human rights that they are at the forefront of granting are about to be removed by force.