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Does anyone know how the swiss proposal treats travel/residency?

I've long thought that a guaranteed income is an idea worth trying. But it did occur to me recently that such an amount would let you live like a king in many developing countries. Is there anything in the proposal to stop people from simply moving abroad?

More generally, how should a well designed universal income proposal treat travel/living abroad? If you cut off payments for those that are no longer residents, you suddenly provide a huge disincentive for travel. If you keep them, you encourage mass emigration.



As far as I understood it: the proposal doesn't specify this. This (among other questions) has to be solved by the parliament in case the proposal is accepted.


A rule setting a maximum of one or two months/year paid abroad would suffice.


Right. But then you've got a very large incentive against the kind of travel that young people routinely do.

Most of my family and friends have taken 3-4 month trips abroad, very formative. I expect many of them would have stayed home if they lost the income.


If they want to travel more, they can work to get the extra income required to do so above/beyond the basic income.

Which would act as an incentive for them to work.


How so? They wouldn't be expecting any income at all if they only had a job, it would be even worse.

Of course, you'd be eligible again on return.




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