Renaming unemployment benefits as 'research grants' or 'sabbatical grants' would cost the state no additional money (since it already pays out unemployment), but would transform the psychology and social standing of idle people, allowing them to be productive in ways they value rather than remaining demoralized.
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Unidentified Speaker — Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in … [4O3ITKAG4_8]Evidence Quote
“I think one simple way this could be achieved with the strength of a pen is is simply changing the name of Unemployment Benefit to research grounds so then we could have lots and lots of people on Research grants and the stigma of being on unemployment it would be transformed”
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