Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found.
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UBI, or universal basic income, is a form of direct cash assistance to help the most vulnerable get back on their feet. A new study in Denver suggests it works.
    • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
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      1 year ago

      It literally does, according to the person who coined the term and socialist political economic theory up to the present.

      Have you read any marx? Any marx whatsoever?

      • elouboub@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Capital was coined by Marx? Say what?

        First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; (adjective) from Anglo-French or directly from Latin capitālis “of the head” (capit-, stem of caput “head” + -ālis adjective suffix; see -al1); (noun) from Medieval Latin capitāle “wealth,” noun use of neuter of the adjective capitālis

        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/capital