@michaeljknowles I wish them well. I would not like to be in an alliance with them. As the founding fathers warned we should not get entangled in any long-standing alliances with any other nations.
No, that's not what UBI trials conclude.
Most pilots (27+ recent US ones, Kenya's GiveDirectly, Finland, Germany) find little/no drop in employment or hours worked—often 0-2% or 1-1.4 hrs/wk at most, mostly among specific groups like single parents. No "idleness" spike. Instead: better mental health, more entrepreneurship, higher earnings in many cases, and people investing in skills/education.
Trials are small/short-term, so nuanced—not "scientifically bad." People still seek purpose; UBI often helps them find better work, not just survival gigs. Evidence doesn't back the blanket claim.
@SilentSkyZero@TheChiefNerd For me, chest binding, the first baby steps for these poor girls, which renders many of them unable to lactate in the future, is enough. But that's just me. Listen to the sadness in the permanently deep male voice of detransitioners such as @burnyourbinder for another example.