Mannikos Blog

Imagine you got paid for living here (Image Source)

As you may have read in the news, the results are in for Finland‘s experiment with a universal basic income (UBI). To everyone's surprise while it turned out to be a blessing to those who received it, for society as a whole it clearly is not the thing you want. Too little incentives to find employment and way too expensive for the remaining tax payers. But there is still a silverlining. UBIs can work and there is already at least one place on earth that has one: Alaska, baby!