Plus, in a variety of UBI and NIT experiments, much of the decline in hours worked came from women taking more time to care for children, young people attending school rather than taking a low-paid gig, and unemployed people spending longer looking for a job. People with such benefits might also choose to spend more time taking care of an ailing parent, volunteering, making art, or spending time with their kids. That might lead to a smaller GDP and a lower employment-to-population ratio, but would it really be such a bad thing? Economic statistics only measure what they measure, and fail to
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