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0 pointsuser59944616y ago0 comments

You can easily save 10 to 20% when unemployed because you don't have to pay for daily transportation (tube/train/car), lunch outdoors every day and a few other things. So the difference in disposable income is about null in most cases.

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watwut6y ago

You can take lunch from home and eat that. I know enough people who do that. People who bought yearly or other long term tickets (majority of frequent travellers) dont save.

tomxor6y ago

Even if that is the case, it's not your choice, as I said before - it does not apply to those voluntarily unemployed. You are projecting arguments of basic income onto an economic solution for a pandemic where people are suddenly forced into unemployment or unpaid leave for a very specific reason...

Given a lack of choice how can paying wages make any difference to their employment behavior. I'll repeat: this is not basic income.

user5994461OP6y ago

This had nothing to do with basic income. We're talking unemployment for people who get laid off from their jobs.

tomxor6y ago

Then you clearly didn't read the article, the headline is:

> The government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic

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watwut6y ago

You can take lunch from home and eat that. I know enough people who do that. People who bought yearly or other long term tickets (majority of frequent travellers) dont save.

tomxor6y ago

Given a lack of choice how can paying wages make any difference to their employment behavior. I'll repeat: this is not basic income.

user5994461OP6y ago

This had nothing to do with basic income. We're talking unemployment for people who get laid off from their jobs.

tomxor6y ago

Then you clearly didn't read the article, the headline is:

> The government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse