Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin...
by subroutine on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:39AM
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I agree this surprise money is not a good test of UBI. An actual wide-scale implementation of UBI seems like a great way to provide landlords with a bunch of extra cash.
In this examples test phase they also aren't sending everyone money. They are randomly seeding money to several households in the community, which will also influence its spending. Because this is surprise money it probably has a higher change of going into deferred payment. I am not convinced this test a good way to test something like a UBI but its not simple as lesson one. I think its a huge mistake to think you've learned everything and can holistically judge broad scale policy from just lesson one but thats just me.