Pilots like this are useless. They have no predictive power because an actual universal basic income is qualitatively different from an "income you and a few of your neighbors will get for less than a handful of years and then it goes away." We already know what people do in circumstances like that. It’s called graduate school.
For the timid politicians among us, I have bad news. UBI is untestable. You can’t pretend to have it for a while and then discontinue it. But it doesn’t matter. No country is ever going to just decide to have an actual UBI. […]
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