[realkitkat]

+1. I am a willing test subject. where do I sign-up? That said - given the cost of living here in CA, I would assume that in the eventuality of becoming unemployed for an extended period of time, I couldn't support myself with the basic income only and would need to look into moving to some less expensive areas. In fact, this is what was suggested in some discussion ( couldn't find a link ) I remember reading relative to Finnish basic income experiment cited in some posts here. E.g. unless basic income would vary based on cost of living in your region, it would effectively result as people relying solely on it having to abandon living in more expensive cities and areas. Which seemingly is a notion few politicians would want to put forward when introducing basic income. But when you introduce regional differences in level of income, you open a can of worms that seemingly leads to all kinds of potential abuse, managing which then prevents dismantling of bureaucracy that was the whole idea to begin with.

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That would be an interesting quirk. I think basing it on the average cost of living for the country would make sense. It might have a helpful side effect of revitalizing some dying towns if a bunch of people move to lower CoL areas to stretch their basic income further.