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Universal basic income Wales is set to end its experiment – why we think that’s a mistake (nation.cymru)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hefin Gwilym, Lecturer in Social Policy, Bangor University, Dave Beck, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Salford

The Welsh government has announced that its universal basic income (UBI) project will not be continued after the initial pilot ends in 2025 because of the cost.

The trial involved paying monthly payments of £1,600 each to a group of 635 care leavers. The scheme, which began in 2022, was offered to all young people leaving the care system at the age of 18.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

However, no country has ever introduced a UBI despite those many examples. This has been largely because of the perceived costs and public opinion about giving people money for nothing.

We can't have nice things because of people. Also, you can bet that people's opinions about giving people money for nothing have been formed by the media who in turn have been paid for by oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The irony of course being that often these oligarchs and media barons are being given money for nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And there's also been an ongoing effort to astroturf that. At the beginning of last century it would be understood that property would refer to owning land. Nowadays 'property' is synonymous in everyday English with 'personal belongings.' Because taking a 300 acre farm in collective ownership is exactly the same as a home invasion robbery where I take your flat screen tv at gunpoint.