- Low access to anything not in walking distance, or which costs money to get in
- Easy access to distracting pop culture and particularly TV
It's basically unsurprising that a person here and now who's unemployed DOESN'T behave like a person in a society that distributes Basic Income without stigma.
If you want to look at a group which might make a better comparison, look at retirees, or lottery winners.
Fair point, but compare full-time workers to people aged 75+ (who are mostly retired): the latter have 4.5 hours more leisure time per weekday, and 60% of that is spent watching TV. The category most likely to contain creative hobbies ("Other leisure and sports activities, including travel") gets an extra 4 minutes per day. Education time rounds to zero. They do read more, though: about an hour more per day.
Dropping back to ages 65-74 is mostly similar, except they only read half as much.
- Enormous stigma
- Being a powerless pawn of Kafkaesque bureaucracy
- Poor nutrition, distracting hunger, nagging uncured illness
- Pressure, stress, fear and suffering
- Low access to anything not in walking distance, or which costs money to get in
- Easy access to distracting pop culture and particularly TV
It's basically unsurprising that a person here and now who's unemployed DOESN'T behave like a person in a society that distributes Basic Income without stigma.
If you want to look at a group which might make a better comparison, look at retirees, or lottery winners.