{"id":51035,"date":"2025-04-26T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51035\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:58:10","slug":"john-downing-germany-gave-people-e1200-a-month-with-no-strings-attached-it-had-an-unexpected-impact-on-their-work-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51035\/","title":{"rendered":"John Downing: Germany gave people \u20ac1,200 a month with no strings attached \u2013 it had an unexpected impact on their work motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters at a rally for an unconditional basic income on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/68beadf1-6cf5-40b0-9546-b4c8af169274.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Protesters at a rally for an unconditional basic income on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Thursday, German social researchers will open applications from people who want to receive \u20ac1,200 a month in guaranteed income, with no strings attached, for the next 12 months. The posh phrase is \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d, but in popular parlance it is called \u201cfree money for all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Across the Western world, this idea is gathering momentum, and has support from groups with diverse economic and political viewpoints. It has been talked about in Germany since the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b Protesters at a rally for an unconditional basic income on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Photo: Getty On Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,27306],"class_list":{"0":"post-51035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-john-downing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114402028120501426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}