Maedzava To Yusak (Yusaku Maezawa)

Maedzava To Yusak (Yusaku Maezawa)

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2020: A gift in the amount of $9 million to subscribers of Twitter

At the beginning of January, 2020 the Japanese billionaire announced Yusak Maedzava readiness to present 1000 subscribers of Twitter 1 million yens or $9000 to learn whether basic income is capable to make people happier. Researches show that it is quite possible.

Maedzava announced that he will select participants of a research in a random way from those subscribers who retweet its message of January 1. Maedzava considers this offer as "a serious social experiment" — assessment of the idea of unconditional basic income, i.e. periodical payments to all citizens of the country regardless of that, they work or not. This concept is advanced by Andrew Yang, the U.S. presidential candidate from Democratic party who promised to issue $1000 a month to each citizen in case of a victory in elections 18 years are more senior.

Maedzava says that he will keep track of results of the experiment by means of regular polls of receivers. Besides, he hopes to attract the interest of scientists-sociologists and economists. However the idea already had critics.

Basic income is a regularly arriving minimum amount which gives to the citizen feeling of security and security. Maedzava's proposal has with it almost nothing in common — the senior economist of Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute Toshihiro Nagahama said.

Judging by Maedzava experimental conditions, the economist is right — participants only will receive lump sum payment instead of continued support.

Nevertheless, Maedzava's proposal does not impose additional conditions and restrictions — for example, from winners of this lottery it is not required to earn below a certain amount. In this sense Maedzava's payments remind the idea of basic income, than initiatives supported by the state in the field of social security more.^[1]

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