Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
by notahacker on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:08PM
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This is very true, but it's also true that the inappropriate generalisation of this experiment seems to have started with the press release!
If somebody announced a drug test that didn't look at symptoms or benchmark against placebo effects was "testing a new cure", people would rightly point out it was doing no such thing, just as an evaluation of how people in extreme poverty react to charitable handouts doesn't really tell us much about the effects of redesigning the Western welfare state on UBI principle that taxpayers really ought to subsidise wealthy early retirees and housewives on exactly the same basis they subsidise the desperately seeking work and disabled.
If somebody announced a drug test that didn't look at symptoms or benchmark against placebo effects was "testing a new cure", people would rightly point out it was doing no such thing, just as an evaluation of how people in extreme poverty react to charitable handouts doesn't really tell us much about the effects of redesigning the Western welfare state on UBI principle that taxpayers really ought to subsidise wealthy early retirees and housewives on exactly the same basis they subsidise the desperately seeking work and disabled.