Bread without shovel: Finland began largest financial project in history, this could determine the future of the world

Finland has launched one of the largest, if not the largest financial project in history

In fact, since the new year it became the first European country to give unemployed citizens the basic monthly income. This is a radical pilot project which aims to completely eradicate poverty and idleness, but also reduce bureaucracy, writes The Independent.Two thousand people a month will receive 560 euros and the project is two years. They do not have anyone to submit any reports, nor how they spend money, nor are they seeking work. This amount will not affect any other potential benefits they receive from the state.

The system is designed KELA, the government agency responsible for social security. Citizens will receive a basic monthly income were selected randomly. If in the meantime, find a job, will still continue to receive money on a monthly basis. In Finland, there is already a problem because of the unemployed refuses to get a job simply because the country excellent care of the unemployed."It will be interesting to see how people will behave. Will they make it to boldly experiment with other kinds of work? "He asks Olli Kangas from KELA-e.

"Or will it, according to some critics, to make lazy because they know they will receive solid money without any equipment," he adds.Over eight percent, or about 213,000 Finns, in November, it was out of work, and these figures were a year earlier. The average salary in the private sector in Finland is slightly less than 3,000 euros a month.

A similar experiment is introduced and Scotland

Test with a basic monthly income is considered Finland's Minister welfare Hanna Mantyla, is a major project to deal with problems in the future. Similar projects have already been carried out in Africa and India, but Finland is the first highly developed country that does this work. Something similar is planned and in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and Scotland.A Scotland could be the next European country, or the province, which will test a program of universal basic income. Municipality Fife and Glasgow already tested an experimental program for this year, writes The Guardian.

City Councillor, labor Matt Kerr main proponent of the idea in the town hall of Glasgow. "Like many people, I was interested in the idea but I was never fully convinced. But working on the Labor Project for combating poverty, I must arrive back to the basic income.The basic income would simplify the intricate British social welfare system, says Kerr, adding: "But there is also a solidarity: talk to each price and that the government support. It changes the relationship between the individual and the state.

• 3 Jan, 2017
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