Finland to experiment with basic income

[gkishot]

I am not saying that everybody can do it, I am just saying that it's ain't a super difficult skill to learn, and if you compare it to physicist'/engineers'/programmers' jobs - this skill is way easier to learn. People don't go to work on WS because not everyone can afford to go to the Ivy League college not everyone has connections.

1. It's hard to do for a living. On the other hand, is being a lawyer a hard skill to learn? Or an actor?
2. You don't have to go to the Ivy League to earn money on Wall Street.

I have no idea why you singled out the Wall Street crowd. This is just another vocation as any other one. And not everybody can do it just like not everybody can be a neurosurgeon no matter how much it pays. I know I wouldn't even go near it for any money.

 

[Xela]

how many Nobel Laureates did Finland produced?

Four, but it's a very low-population country famed worldwide for the high standards of its educational system, almost universally acclaimed as the best in Europe, anyway. (I think a much better parameter would be how many PhD's or college professors it's produced? And that's a lot, for its population. I'm "just saying" ... ).

 

[java]

Four, but it's a very low-population country famed worldwide for the high standards of its educational system, almost universally acclaimed as the best in Europe, anyway. (I think a much better parameter would be how many PhD's or college professors it's produced? And that's a lot, for its population. I'm "just saying" ... ).

U.S. students (both black and white) in predominately white suburban schools test higher, way higher than do the students of Finland. The inner city schools drag down our average below most of the world.

 

[felixbocharov]

Really? Whats the catch?

I don't really know the exact details, but as I know they would cut some social benefits instead: for example charge higher prices at the public transport and so on and so forth...

 

[Xela]

as I know they would cut some social benefits instead

Indeed ... it's intended - among other things - as an alternative to paying unemployment benefits (which are clearly a huge expense to the taxpayers, in many countries).

 

[java]

The arguments against it must be hilarious. It's ok to take money from someone and give it to someone else, but it's not ok to take money from someone and give it right back to the person you took it from.

 

[galvinlee888]

Do you really think that the guys on the W.S. work harder than the other guys? Or they contribute to the economy more? Explain me why do these guys get such paychecks.

Really? Do you ever worked in WS before? Do you know what is their average working hours each week?

I am not saying that everybody can do it, I am just saying that it's ain't a super difficult skill to learn, and if you compare it to physicist'/engineers'/programmers' jobs - this skill is way easier to learn. People don't go to work on WS because not everyone can afford to go to the Ivy League college not everyone has connections.

Do you really believe other professional really contribute to economy? Look at those so called professional that work in corporate world, they spend most of their working hours on office politics and useless presentation to please the upper management. Btw, WS also have a big team of people that has a super strong background in "physicist'/engineers'/programmers' ". Most of them start without connection from beginning , and work hard to gain the connection starting in college.