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Comment by FinUnions
Largest Trade Union of Finland
Finland’s basic income experiment is unworkable, uneconomical and ultimately useless. Plus, it will only encourage some people to work less.
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(2017)
2y ago
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Source URL (independent.co.uk) is blocked by WebFetch and cannot be directly accessed. However, the quote is well-corroborated by external search results: it was said by Ilkka Kaukoranta, chief economist of SAK (Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö / Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions — the largest trade union confederation in Finland, matching the author biography "Largest Trade Union of Finland"). The statement was reported in February 2017 by Bloomberg ("Free Money Provokes Some Finns to Slam Basic Income as 'Useless'", Feb 8, 2017), Huffington Post (Feb 9, 2017), Zero Hedge (Feb 10, 2017), and BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network). Vote direction ("against" on "Implement a universal basic income") correctly aligns with the quote's explicit criticism of UBI as "unworkable, uneconomical and ultimately useless" and its warning that it "will only encourage some people to work less". The year 2017 is correct (historical quote at the launch of Finland's basic income experiment); no more recent FinUnions/SAK statement on UBI was found in search results. Other direct source URLs (Bloomberg, HuffPost, BIEN, ZeroHedge) also returned 403 errors, so none could be substituted as a verifiable primary source.
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