A large-scale social experiment of "basic income" that can earn 60,000 yen a month without working

ByGunnar Wrobel

"Basic income" is a mechanism that pays a fixed amount to the people every month, it is thought that "meaningless labor" will be reduced because you can obtain even if the minimum necessary money for living does not work. In Switzerland in June 2016A referendum on whether to introduce the system is rejected and rejectedAlthough it was done, in Finland it is decided that thousands of experiments will be started.

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On August 25, 2016, the Finnish government submitted a bill on the "basic income" experiment. In this bill, we randomly choose 2000 to 3000 people from unemployment benefit recipients and will pay 560 euros (about 64,000 yen) every month.

Social experiments on basic incomes have been done in the 1970s, and in the immediate futureA venture capital Y combinator is considering implementation in Auckland etc.In addition to that,Pilot program was held at Utrecht in the Netherlands from January 2016It is being done. Among them, the experiment on the scale of several thousand people in Finland is the world's largest one, and it is expected to become an important attempt to talk about basic income in the future.

The Finnish government has stated that basic income experiments aim to reduce social poverty, unravel economic growth impediment factors, and aim to streamline the social welfare system.

Basic income is seen as a solution to the unequal and worse employment due to the explosive advancement of robotics engineering and the automation of routine work, but this time, this point is not touched.