[mypastself]

The initiative is apparently to introduce “basic incomes”, plural, which is presumably determined based on local economic circumstances. Not sure how that reduces “regional disparities” and achieves “territorial cohesion”, though.

[rorykoehler]

All that will happen is people will pretend to live in rich expensive countries and actually live in cheaper countries. I already see this all the time with benefits.

[anoncake]

Source, please?

[rorykoehler]

In my peer group. Incentives drive behaviour

[anoncake]

So, none. Obviously there will always be some assholes, that should not determine policy unless it gets out of hand.

[rorykoehler]

The whole point of UBI is to remove means testing. I think we can set a number that works on average and let people move to suit their needs. We definitely should avoid all incentives to game the system as it will only distract and get the initiative bogged down in paper pushing bs.

[anoncake]

Unfortunately, living standards differ too much within the EU for that.