From Kerstin Breinig, rbb Out of curiosity, Jeremy Scheibe applied for the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). The 28-year-old didn’t believe that the lot could really hit him. But since April he has been receiving 1000 euros a month – for a year. For him it is a nice security, as he says himself, and a good way to repay the student loan debt. Like Jeremy Scheibe, more than 800 people have received a basic income from Mein Grundeinkommen since 2014 and have used it to finance self-employment, travel, training or simply a financially more relaxed life. The money comes from private donors. Now the effect of the BGE in Germany is to be scientifically researched for the first time. More than two million people applied for this long-term study – 122 of them will now receive 1200 euros a month for three years. However, this time the participants have to meet one condition: fill out a questionnaire every six months.

Social hammock or creative incentive?

Half of Germans support the UBI, the other half categorically reject it. In the end, the opponents saw themselves confirmed. A Finnish study, in which the unemployed received an unconditional monthly income, found that the participants were happier, but mostly still unemployed. Grist to the mill of those who fundamentally assume that any incentive to work would cease to exist with a basic income. So couch instead of productivity. The new study therefore includes a control group in addition to the 122 basic income recipients. For this purpose, singles between 21 and 40 were selected who had the same characteristics and life situations as possible, quasi statistical twins.

More courageous decisions in working life?

“We wanted to target the middle of society and also provide people with such a basic income who have completed their training and are at the beginning of their career and family education,” says Jürgen Schupp from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). In the next three years, the researchers want to find out how money is changing people. “Do these people develop more common sense now, does it perhaps lead to less burnout, do they perhaps also make more courageous decisions in their working life?” These are the questions Schupp hopes for answers. The initiators of “My Basic Income” want to prove that their idea is the right one. Michael Bohmeyer initiated the project. He wants to convince everyone with the pilot study. He believes that people will continue to do fulfilling jobs, but will become more creative and more charitable. “The debate has been full of ideological beliefs for decades. We believe that practical examples are now needed so that the debate can be conducted in a substantive manner and we can get one step closer to the introduction,” hopes Bohmeyer.

The symbol for the pilot project: an ATM in front of the Reichstag building. Michael Bohmeyer believes in the success of the idea. Image: dpa

Financing? Not clear

But there are still many unanswered questions. On the other hand, Professor Dominik Enste from the IW Cologne reckons that 1000 euros a month for everyone would mean one trillion euros a year that anyone would have to pay. “We have had a successful social system based on give and take for 70 years.” For him, the UBI is a utopia that must fail because of reality. “People don’t like to give without something in return,” says Enste. The results of the study will have to show whether the UBI can be a one-off experiment or the way to a new future. In a second stage, the possible financing should then also be examined.

Kariko Katalin. Photo: Euronews What is mRNA technology? Vaccines with mRNA technology are Covid-19 vaccine most awaited. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pioneered and quickly approved this vaccine. Compared with traditional technology, mRNA promises to be more effective, faster, safer, with fewer side effects; can compare the difference like a motorbike and a jet. The concept of mRNA was learned in 9th grade, biology lectures taught that mRNA has the function of conveying information that regulates the structure of proteins. Letter m = messenger = information. To make it easy to understand, the process of synthesizing each protein in the human body is like solving a complex math problem, mRNA becomes a manual of mathematical formulas. If humans can create a vaccine in the form of artificial mRNA, when injected into the body, the mRNA will disguise itself as a “thief” that sneaks in but does not wake up the “host”, it silently builds a defense system. are antibody proteins, so that when the virus attacks, it will be destroyed by that system. mRNA urges, haunts Kariko Katalin Kariko Katalin is obsessed with mRNA, she understands this is a very special type of RNA that holds all the secrets to creating billions of billions of proteins in the human body. Theoretically, science can completely manipulate mRNA to create a targeted protein, doing that, mRNA becomes the most powerful weapon to control a variety of diseases. But that’s just a theory. Understanding of mRNA in the 1980s was still very limited. In principle, when injecting mRNA into the human body, it is an allergen, so the body’s defense system will immediately destroy it before the mRNA can perform its functions. That is, the mRNA vaccine, no matter how cleverly disguised, is still a “thief”. But what is more serious, is that the human body’s instinctive resistance to the “thief” is too strong, creating a severe immune response that is potentially fatal. After a lot of failures, most scientists gave up, no one cares about mRNA anymore, that knowledge is scattered on the pages of 9th and 10th grade biology textbooks, so that students can take exams with these questions. boring question. Kariko Katalin was undaunted and continued to dive into research. All efforts paid off when Katalin’s work attracted the attention of two young companies Moderna (Canada) and BioNTech (Germany), after which the giant Pfizer (USA) decided to invest in the production of Covid vaccines. -19 by mRNA technology. That is like winning a ticket to Mars. mRNA technology will not stop at vaccine production, but in the not too distant future, a series of “diseases” such as cancer, stroke, or other dangerous diseases also promise to be “cleared”. The floating life of Kariko Katalin Kariko Katalin was born on January 17, 1955 in Szolnok (Hungary), in a cottage without amenities, but full of love for a family home. Kariko Katalin inherited a gene for biology from her father, a pork salesman, a gene for research perseverance from her mother, an accountant, and was inspired by her passion for biology from the teachers at the school she attended. study. Due to poverty, Kariko Katalin devoted herself to her university years, winning a scholarship to the People’s Republic of Hungary, the most prestigious scholarship at that time. Katalin went on to study for a doctorate, then worked at the biological research center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged. Kariko Katalin pursues mRNA technology. It is an area that requires a lot of investment. Hungary in the 1980s was the most liberal and open country in the former Soviet bloc, but it also didn’t have the money to fund major research. Kariko Katalin lost her job at the age of 30. She initially looked for a job in the European Union, but nowhere would accept it, because Katalin had no significant scientific achievements. One afternoon in 1985, Kariko Katalin and her husband took their 2-year-old daughter out of Hungary to find her way to America. The only asset of any value is the old car, which sold for £900 on the black market. To make it through, Kariko Katalin had to cut open her daughter’s toy teddy bear, insert £900, and then sew it back up. Initially in the US, Kariko Katalin was accepted to work at Temple University, but soon her group was disbanded because of lack of funding. In 1989, Kariko Katalin joined the faculty of pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. Although she is a full professor, this is the most difficult time, the salary is very low and no one believes her. Things took a turn for the worse in 1995, Kariko couldn’t get funding, couldn’t find a project, and the University of Pennsylvania decided to fire her. It was a horrible time. The room Kariko Katalin lived in was leaking in every evening rain. She has just been diagnosed with cancer while her husband is in Hungary and cannot come to the US because of visa problems. How much time and dedication work seems to be slipping out of hand. “I started to suspect that maybe I wasn’t good, I wasn’t smart. I try to tell myself that everything is here, I just need to do better experiments,” said Kariko Katalin. Turning point In 1998, Kariko Katalin finally received the first $100,000 grant. Strangely enough, that year she also met a man of her life. It was that fateful afternoon, Kariko Katalin went to photocopy documents, she met Drew Weissmen, a colleague who had just moved from the National Institutes of Health. In the meantime, Kariko Katalin told Weissmen about the idea of ​​creating mRNA. Immediately Weissmen saw before his eyes a priceless fortune. Weissmen decided to invest, collaborate with Kariko Katalin, determined to develop mRNA technology in the field of biomedicine. In 2005, the attenuated version of mRNA was released. After reading the study, Derrick Rossi, a Canadian stem cell expert who is doing a PhD student at Stanford University, was amazed. The time has come. Realizing a super profitable business opportunity, Rossi quietly sought investment capital, he founded a small company, named Moderna. In Germany, a new research team also discovered the potential of Kariko Katalin, a new company BioNTech was founded, based in the US. In 2013, BioNTech hired Karko Katalin as a senior mRNA specialist. Moderna and BioNTech did not do much until 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Moderna promoted the production of vaccines by mRNA technology, adding the company BioNTech invested by Pfizer billions of dollars determined to turn their ideas into Kariko Katalin come true.

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