social@p80.se
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

www.businessinsider.com

external-link
message-square
18
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • world@lemmy.world
332
external-link

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

www.businessinsider.com

Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
18
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • world@lemmy.world
Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.
  • hobata@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    14
    ·
    2 days ago

    It would be very interesting if any other income were prohibited under threat of imprisonment. It would be a good experiment.

    • BoblinTheGoblin [none/use any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      21 hours ago

      That’s not what Basic Income is for. Basic income is meant to cover your basics for survival, a safety net. If you want any additional money you’re meant to still work for it. It’s not a replacement for employment.

      • hobata@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        12 hours ago

        I have a pretty good idea of what UBI is. But in this context, we are talking about people in the arts; they shouldn’t be employed somewhere, so that they can devote themselves entirely to creating art.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Do you mean income from sources other than their art? Or any income at all?

      • hobata@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        7
        ·
        2 days ago

        Any income at all. It would make everything easier and more fun.

        • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 days ago

          What would be fun about restricting people to 1500 a month because they choose to pursue art?

          • hobata@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            2 days ago

            That can be the most significant and big happening of last decades. And of course it’s fun.

            • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 day ago

              You’re not a good person

              • hobata@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                13 hours ago

                What makes you think that?

            • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 day ago

              Is this qrstuv’s alt lmao

World News@lemmy.ml

worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 523 users / day
  • 2.28K users / week
  • 4.35K users / month
  • 11.6K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 38.1K subscribers
  • 8.86K Posts
  • 37.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.@lemmy.ml
  • zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org