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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by dharma1 on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:49AM (#17013694)
I wonder what size a community needs to be for UBI to function in a self-sustaining way. I'd like to see some game theoretical research into it too if anyone has pointers?
Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by MrZongle2 on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:53AM (#17013730)
That's a good question. By the same token: is there a maximum community size that can support UBI?
Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by dharma1 on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:30PM (#17014065)
Quite possibly, things like distance and number of participants would most likely change the dynamics.

That's why I was wondering about the game theory part, so it could perhaps be modelled and tested in software. Running large scale UBI experiments is pretty slow and expensive, so tuning the parameters in the real world to make it work is going to take a very long time and cost a lot of money.

Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by airstrike on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:59PM (#17014314)
How exactly do you plan on modeling how people are going to behave after receiving the aid? That's what these real-life experiments are trying to do in order to inform their models.

It's not like economists don't know how to build models...

Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by dharma1 on Monday May 07, 2018 @01:11PM (#17014437)
I don't know what I would model or how - that's why I was asking for pointers :)

And I in addition to economists, I would be interested in seeing contributions from physicists, computer scientists and machine learning researchers. This paper was super interesting - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03058, as was this - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376

But would like to see UBI specific papers.