Give Directly press release ...

https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-ne...

Direct link to paper ...

https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Gene...

And of course, distribution and quantity seems to have an effect. Lotteries have famously bad impacts...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-comparing-yourself-to-...

A much larger program called Bolsa Família has been in place for almost two decades here in Brazil. The findings were smaller but still positive: for every R$1 that went into the program, GDP grew by a calculated R$1,78 [1]

[1]: https://valor.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2013/10/15/ipea-cada-... (original article, in Portuguese and paywalled, can be read here: https://outline.com/SAALuA)

Yeah, that's the real problem here. We've long known that limited forms of communism, such as cooperatives and communes, can function extremely well in small self selected populations, but fall apart when they get big enough to be taken advantage of by bad actors. I think there's a future for basic income, but I'm not going put faith in it for broader adoption without vastly broader study.

And capitalism?

Capitalism is a system that builds some form of increasing prosperity using people's selfish behaviors.

Historically, outright capitalism at scale had outperformed outright communism at scal. Europe is actively experimenting with small admixtures of communism / socialism to overcome some of the shortcomings of capitalism, as they see it.

how long do you think history is?

Capitalism proper only exists for a few centuries.