{"id":13276,"date":"2017-11-01T01:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/01\/a-basic-income-for-everyone-yes-finland-shows-it-really-can-work-aditya-chakrabortty\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T01:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:28:33","slug":"a-basic-income-for-everyone-yes-finland-shows-it-really-can-work-aditya-chakrabortty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13276","title":{"rendered":"A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk back the idea. And trials suggest it can liberate jobless people from a life of humiliationIn a speck of a village deep in the Finnish countryside, a man gets money for free. Each month, almost \u20ac560 (\u00a3500) is dropped into his bank account, with no strings attached. The cash is his to use as he wants. Who is his benefactor? The Helsinki government. The prelude to a thriller, perhaps, or some reality TV. But Juha J\u00e4rvinen\u2019s story is ultimately more exciting. He is a human lab rat in an experiment that could help to shape the future of the west.Last Christmas, J\u00e4rvinen was selected by the state as one of 2,000 unemployed people for a trial of universal basic income. You may have heard of UBI, or the policy of literally giving people money for nothing. It\u2019s an idea that lights up the brains of both radical leftists \u2013 John McDonnell and Bernie Sanders \u2013 and Silicon Valley plutocrats such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. And in the long slump that has followed the banking crash, it is one of the few alternatives put forward that doesn\u2019t taste like a reheat. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/31\/finland-universal-basic-income\" target=\"_blank\">A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk back the idea. And trials suggest it can liberate jobless people from a life of humiliationIn a speck of a village deep in the Finnish countryside, a man gets money for free. Each month, almost \u20ac560 (\u00a3500) is dropped into his bank account, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}