Mr Puggsly said:
Ultimately, able body people shouldn't get FREE health unless they have a damn good reason. I've literally seen entitlements ruin people in my family. The mom got welfare, the daughter eventually got welfare, now their kids are a new generation relying on welfare. It literally ruins people to know they can live fairly comfortably on government handouts. Its good intentions actually doing something evil, killing any ambition.
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I'm sorry that this happened to your family, but anecdotal evidence from a handful of people who are socially and genetically correlated is not convincing enough to draw such a conclusion. Here is a much larger pool of anecdotes:
http://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/basic-income-finland-23062017/
However, I wouldn't be too quick to draw the opposite conclusion since this trial was only for 5 months and your anecdotes are much more longitudinal than this. But I strongly believe that humans are ambitious for many different reasons, and that ambition can thrive without a motivation so drastic as the threat of death (for instance, mate selection can be a powerful motivator). I could equally well imagine cases where any ambition is killed by stress over losing one's coverage, who can say for sure without more analysis?
