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by h0w412d 4720 days ago
There was an experiment with this called Mincome in Canada. They found that the only two groups of people who worked less were new moms and teenagers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
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Note that "Guaranteed Minimum Income" is something else. From my reading Mincome is in fact a Basic Income system, despite the name, though I'm by no means an expert on the experiment.