Better wellbeing is so important. Less health cost, less safety service costs (police for example), better performing people, less sick people at work, and so on.<p>It is unfortunate most countries today are reigned by short term money while happy people means long term profit.
While I fully support basic income, I don't feel a survey is very insightful.<p>I mean, we have to work with the tools we have got, but it's not like this was a blinded result. All survey participants would have been aware:
1) they did get money or not
2) the survey is being used for a study about potentially getting money in the future, if it shows positive impacts.<p>People are smart, they know what the "right answer" is to have this declared positive.<p>Maybe if the study was run 30 years people would forget the effects or something.<p>I don't think a short term study of basic income looking for survey results was ever going to give us insight into whether we should do it.<p>Again, I support basic income, but as a more efficient and fair redistribution tool with fewer malincentives and as a necessary tool to morally give people a minimum quality of life.<p>What was interesting was the increased work hours from the pool that got basic income. To me that is the only meaningful signal from this study.
In short, people with basic income work less, feel happier, produce less. Nothing too extraordinary.<p>"The response rate for the survey was 23% (31% for the basic income recipients and 20% for the control group), which is typical for surveys."<p>At least they should answer the study they were enrolled into :| This shows the recipients have little consideration for the tax-payers.