Die Niederlande könnten das erste Land mit einem universellen Grundeinkommen werden (als pragmatische zentristische Lösung für die Sozialreform und Automatisierung)
https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-netherlands-may-become-the-first-country-with-universal-basic-income-ubi
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### Submission comment:
The recent electoral success of the Dutch D66 party was driven by a social liberal platform featuring an „individual basic amount,“ a UBI proposal to replace complex welfare benefits. This policy draws on evidence from municipal „trust experiments“ conducted in the Netherlands around 2017-2020. In these trials, a „trust“ group of welfare recipients was freed from mandatory job-seeking requirements, while a separate „earnings release“ group, which still had work obligations, could keep more of their income from part-time jobs.
The results showed that **removing obligations did not harm employment but significantly improved health and well-being, while financial incentives increased part-time work**. This allowed D66 to frame its policy as a pragmatic, evidence-based way to simplify bureaucracy and improve lives without disincentivizing work, shifting the idea from a fringe concept to mainstream political policy and a pragmatic solution to automation and the future of work.
I am Dutch, and this is never going to happen. Just because the centrist party is the largest party doesn’t mean that the conservative right isn’t didn’t get by far the most votes. It’s just split amongst 5-7 parties that share basically the same ideas with different nuances and people that don’t like each other. The votes for something like UBI simply aren’t there.