Name: Finland Is Giving Citizens $660 A Month For Free As An Experiment (HBO)
Uploaded: 2018-09-05T14:44:58.000Z
Duration: 5 min 34 s
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Juha Jarvinen doesn't just play these shaman drums, he makes them.

How much would you charge for this one, say, then?

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That's not the only business he's got going.

There's filmmaking, and an artist version of Air B&B. All this while helping bring up six

All three kids sleep in
this, these bunks?

Had you swung by last year, things wouldn't have been half

Back then jobless Juha was
on dole money which comes with such

tight restrictions he wasn't able to
pursue any of his business ideas.

But since January he's been getting six hundred and sixty dollars a month,

"What has a basic income made possible for you then?"

What does that enable you to do? Is that
a lot of money for you?

His apparently idealic lifestyle forms part

of one of the biggest economic
experiments of our time.

Universal basic income has rocketed in popularity since the banking crash.

Bernie Sanders backs it, so does tech Titan Elon Musk.
Now Finland is hosting the first big

trial in Europe. This isn't the purest
form of UBI, which would be handed out to

Instead it focuses only on the unemployed.

Still, there's a big jump between pilot and policy, and ministers know it.

What's the politics of actually giving people who are unemployed money just to sit at home?

Just as UBI freed Juha from being trapped on welfare

it could do the same for many
others around the world.

wages is at the heart of capitalism,
breaking it is opposed by some very

In Finland that includes
the finance ministry and the country's

You are saying it's unaffordable, how
unaffordable is it? What kind of impact

What happens if we just give everyone money for nothing?

Where's all the tax going to come from to pay for it?

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