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As Ireland's $1,500-a-month basic income pilot program for creatives nears its end in February, officials have to answer a simple question: Is it worth it?

With four months to go, they say the answer is yes.

Earlier this month, Ireland's government announced its 2026 budget, which includes "a successor to the pilot Basic Income Scheme for the Arts to begin next year" among its expenditures.

Ireland is just one of many places experimenting with guaranteed basic income programs, which provide recurring, unrestricted payments to people in a certain demographic. These programs differ from a universal basic income, which would provide payments for an entire population.

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[–] verdi@feddit.org 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

Either UBI for everyone or UBI for no one. Lest we forget, money for this comes from of decades of collaboration in European tax avoidance by greedy multinational corporations to avoid paying their fair share in the other EU countries they operate in.

Otherwise, UBI is a great idea.

edit: "-excludes for example journalism or books for educational purposes, for example: textbooks, technical manuals, writing created for advertising or publicity purposes."

Yeah, you wouldn't want journalism or education to be freely accessible as an ocupation... This has to be the most ridiculous ubi experiment in the last decade.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Ireland has a history of supporting artists, mostly with large tax breaks for ARTISTS. While journalists and scholars use writing extensively in their careers, they are not "artists" in the way that people tend to think of that concept. They are not creating art, they are creating knowledge. That's an honorable endeavor, but it is not strictly art.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

mostly with large tax breaks for ARTISTS

i mean yeah that barely costs ireland anything as artists are typically poor and therefore barely pay taxes anyways ... /s

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Except that it has attracted major artists, with major fortunes, such as Rod Stewart.

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