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Poverty and hunger.
Replace all the social services your country has with a guaranteed basic income. Everyone gets it and it doesn't run out like unemployment benefits. Another benefit, unlike welfare, is the person can keep working.
This has been studied a lot of times and mostly there is usually 2 concerns:
Now, for the first concern: I had never seen anyone even answer it theoretically.
For the second concern: there is a mixed results, some studies suggest that people productivity gets lower, others suggest otherwise.
I don't see this even applied in a small village.
Just to be clear, I am talking about the widely known UBI, there is NIT and even other universal welfare schemes. IMO, even other universal welfare schemes has their own set of unsolved issues, and very experimental and idealistic in nature.
Here is a map of basic income pilot programs from around the world.
Not only has it been studied, the studies have been taking place for over fifty years. Universal basic income is cheaper in practice than the numerous other social programs that help people who either can't work, shouldn't work or can't work enough to afford their needs.
In a lot of cases the people who choose to work less do so because they have children, health issues or dependants.