Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com)

Next month, the Finnish government is going to try something completely different to help its unemployed citizens: give them free money. From a report on The Outline: On Jan. 9, 2017, a randomly selected group of 2,000 unemployed citizens in Finland will receive a check for 560 euros (about $585) with no strings attached. They'll continue to receive that check every month for two years straight, even if they find a job or continue to remain unemployed. This is part of an experiment to see what happens to people's participation in the labor market after they've been guaranteed a certain amount of money.

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Re:I predict a lot of misunderstandings about BI

[roman_mir]

Correct, it is a net loss and it is a modern version of Communism and to implement this full scale will require negation of property rights and nationalization of production.

2 people: one produces food, the other produces nothing. One eats, the other one does not.

If part of food simply taken away from the person who produces it by force to give that to the person who does not produce it, that's clear as day, nobody can argue that it is a simple case of theft.

3 people:
Person A produces meat.
Person B produces bread.
Person C produces nothing.

A and B can trade meat and bread with each other. If some meat and some bread are taken away by force from A and from B and given to C, then again, it is clear theft, however it also allows C to trade meat with B for bread and allows C to trade bread with A for meat, but person C also has to eat.

So person C eats some bread stolen from B, eats some meat stolen from A and can trade with A and B, but he trades what A and B could trade with each other without C in the picture and A and B would be better off because C wouldn't have eaten part of the product.

This is the model of what is going to happen, basically the people that are productive trade with each other not for money, as in for pieces of paper, but for a promise of future consumption, ability to trade the money for the goods and services that other productive people are supplying.

Nobody can buy any new supply of anything from people that are not productive, that are not working, not producing, not supplying. These people live off the violence of the State against the productive people, this will end up with the productive people moving more and more of their production elsewhere and trying to avoid the theft in every way.

Of-course the productive people are then named: leaches on the society, which is absolutely gloriously amazing, because it is absolute nonsense, but the collectivists will never understand the nonsense because their power depends on not understanding the nonsense.