A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
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I’m gonna be real. Theres no way in hell I would continue to work fulltime.
Especially with the amount of wasted time at work when you can’t even be productive if you wanted to.
One of the unspoken benefits of UBI is that it rebalances the power dynamic between employer and employee. When your back’s not against the wall financially, you can negotiate a lot better for a reasonable setup.
People getting a decent living wage via a 3 day week should be the norm, not an exception. I’ve seen several studies where companies went to a 4 day week, for the same pay. Actual productivity went up, not down. It turns out a happy, rested workforce is a lot more than 20% more productive.