This lasted for only four years. The article cites the case of a man who finally got a job as a janitor and thenwent on to hold it for 28 years, without the GAI. Only four years does not really show the effects. People were still living on the ‘cultural capital’ of a society that taught work is good, self-sufficiency is good, being married n order to raise children is good, etc.
For the effects after a few more years, another generation, look at Native American reservations both in Canada and the US, also the white working class of Britan, also the African American populations of large cities which in effect have a GAI. Native Ameicans live almost completely on public monies. the results in all these cases are alcoholism, (also: Russia) violence, people without internal controls, fatherless children and the pyschic distortion of women-only families, and I could go on but people already know this.
So this stdy of only four years has no relevance.
dido...”they wanted to work”... ain’t so here, mcgee... 2 yrs? how about generations? lest Forget forgot.
Precisely. Furthermore, the tax burden necessary to support this on a widescale basis would act as a disincentive to work.