Fiddle Factor

The government is looking at a universal basic income scam as a response to the A.I menace to jobs. If everyone gets a UBI payment, whether they work or not, it will be easier to conceal true unemployment statistics.
● A trial in Finland 8 years ago was abandoned as unsustainable at a national level. Not exactly a confidence-builder with the Labour lot in government here as it would just be a way of rewarding their lazy and feckless supporters.