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Re:We're officially launching UBI by shkkmo on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:23PM (#15706253)
1) How do you mean it isn't "universal"? My understand is that this initiative is universal within these communities? Are you saying that there is no meaningful way to test UBI without jumping immediately into a global program?

2) 6000 is a pretty good sample size. Given that this will be universal within these communities, we can certainly look for any evidence of local price changes.

Re:We're officially launching UBI by chatmasta on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:25PM (#15706292)
That would be true if every economic good were produced within the community. I don’t know how isolated these experimental communities are, but I doubt they source 100% of supplies from the same group that’s getting the basic income.
Re:We're officially launching UBI by shkkmo on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:35PM (#15706403)
It's true if ANY economic good is produced locally. You can look for individual prices changes.

Additionally, production costs are highly variable component of local prices and can be dwarfed by transport and retail costs (e.g. produce in the US.)

Re:We're officially launching UBI by k__ on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:35PM (#15706413)
Why? Even if a whole country would have UBI they still need to import stuff...