{"id":73609,"date":"2017-11-01T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/finland-is-giving-citizens-660-a-month-for-free-as-an-experiment-hbo"},"modified":"2017-11-01T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:42:27","slug":"finland-is-giving-citizens-660-a-month-for-free-as-an-experiment-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/finland-is-giving-citizens-660-a-month-for-free-as-an-experiment-hbo","title":{"rendered":"Finland Is Giving Citizens $660 A Month For Free As An Experiment (HBO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwjNrxVd-1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Finland, two thousand unemployed people are part of an experiment that could shape the future of the West. For the next two years, the government will give them the equivalent of 660 dollars a month \u2014 for free, no strings attached. It\u2019s an idea called Universal Income and it\u2019s got a lot of politicians and economists excited, and others worried about creating a society of freeloaders.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it look like? VICE News travelled to deepest, darkest, coldest Finland to meet a father of six taking part in the experiment to see how its changed his life and speak to those who are critical of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Check out VICE News for more: <a href=\"http:\/\/vicenews.com\">http:\/\/vicenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow VICE News here:<br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vicenews\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vicenews<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vicenews\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/vicenews<\/a><br \/> Tumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/vicenews.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/vicenews.tumblr.com\/<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/vicenews\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/vicenews<\/a><br \/> More videos from the VICE network: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo\">https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vwjNrxVd-1E\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vwjNrxVd-1E<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Finland, two thousand unemployed people are part of an experiment that could shape the future of the West. For the next two years, the government will give them the equivalent of 660 dollars a month \u2014 for free, no strings attached. It\u2019s an idea called Universal Income and it\u2019s got a lot of politicians [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}