{"id":3531,"date":"2019-02-11T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2019-02-11T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:23:21","slug":"finland-social-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/finland-social-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Social Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a result of a Facebook comment this morning I have been thinking more about his Capitalism vs Socialism analogy: basically, Capitalism is good and Socialism is jamming &#8220;whatever&#8221; down the throats of unwilling constituents. A shortsighted, false view in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.united-states-flag.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/2\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/f\/i\/finland-superknit.jpg\" alt=\"Finland Flag 3ft x 5ft Super Knit Polyester\" width=\"266\" height=\"266\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the morning, I came across this study conducted in Finland and it grabbed my attention because of the mornings response I made to the post on Facebook to which I referred above.  I will present some data below that may stimulate an interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The link to the Finnish social experiment study <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-47169549\" target=\"_blank\">is here<\/a>. I do not know how long the link will last but I would almost bet this site will last longer than the link. Therefore, I will add some of the text in the block below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Finland basic income trial left people &#8216;happier but jobless&#8217;:  This is  seen as increasingly important in the age of automation &#8211; that is, put  very simply, as robots take people&#8217;s jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a Facebook comment this morning I have been thinking more about his Capitalism vs Socialism analogy: basically, Capitalism is good and Socialism is jamming &#8220;whatever&#8221; down the throats of unwilling constituents. A shortsighted, false view in my opinion. Later in the morning, I came across this study conducted in Finland and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}