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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:17AM (#18921500)

The Alaska Permanent Fund is the only one of those that even hits both of the U and I points of UBI (the rest are just I); it doesn't even target the B, though.

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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:41AM (#18921736)

Of course they are basic. Many people live on social security, pensions.

And they're a segment of the population. To study the result of a population receiving a BI, there's plenty of data.

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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:16PM (#18924007)

> Of course they are basic.

Which of them completely displaces means-tested welfare to provide the support floor for all who are in the eligible population. Social Security doesn't. Pensions don't. Being idly rich might, I suppose, in that that is just “living of capital” but ignoring all the people who don't have a lot to live on.

> And they're a segment of the population. To study the result of a population receiving a BI, there's plenty of data.

Not relevant to UBI there isn't. Some segment of the population receiving income varying a Ross indiciduals based on their past work and investments isn't even loosely similar to the whole population of a community receiving equal unconditional UBI, and there is little reason to expect the former to provide much insight on the latter.

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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:27PM (#18926652)

and yet folks are studying UBI already by supplying individuals with a basic income and measuring their behavior. Including YC.

You can't of course study the impact on the economy, but you can surely understand how people change with the UBI.

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