The headline for this research sponsored by OpenAI will likely disappoint advocates for UBI: recipients on ‘unearned income’ turned out to be (marginally) less likely to be in work than control, fuelling the critics argument that giving away money encourages poor work ethic. The research doesn’t cover what the recipients who did not earn income on top of UBI did - were they just couch surfing, or doing other socially important but uncompensated work - looking after loved ones, volunteering for charities and so on? The measurement of work needs to expand beyond labour market participation. Worth
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