[Sharlin]

Finn here. The trial has been criticized from the get-go as being a poorly-designed compromise; those of us with a more cynical outlook suspect that it was intentionally nerfed so as to discredit the idea of basic income in general. But I guess it's just politics as usual; the current government as a whole is not exactly sympathetic with the idea of free money to "lazy people". Everyone does seem to agree, though, that welfare traps are a problem with the current system.

[brownbat]

> Everyone does seem to agree, though, that welfare traps are a problem

Do you have any programs like the EITC, where benefits fall on a curve and slowly phase out as you make more, so there's no hard cliff?

Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit

Graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earned_IncomeTaxCreditW...

[Gravityloss]

We have the opposite, it's more of a skyline graph. If you receive subsidies, a lot of the time, working or studying will yield large and unexpected decreases to your total amount of income.

[yazr]

From the outside, Scandinavia is generally regarded as a successful(-ish?) big-government model.

And yet, talk to any Scandinavian, and you get the same cynical comments about sub optimal government behavior...

[dragonwriter]

Standards are set by experience; the better your experience, the higher your standards.