Ireland's UBI art scheme will NOT become a template for the future peacetime work creation.

Ireland's UBI art scheme will NOT become a template for the future peacetime work creation. | my sense for for what it's worth is that this actually ends up not becoming a template for the future. This this is it strikes me as um in some sense unsustainable to just pay people for uh for art overall.

my sense for for what it's worth is that this actually ends up not becoming a template for the future. This this is it strikes me as um in some sense unsustainable to just pay people for uh for art overall.

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