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Re:Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining suppo... by clort on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:45AM (#9706182)
There have been experiments along these lines. I'm not sure why but I read about this on on HN not so long ago..

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792192
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Re:Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining suppo... by Fargren on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:33PM (#9706937)
As described in plenty of comments in that thread, that experiment was not in basic income. Minimal income and basic income are different in fundamental ways, and could potentially lead to fundamentally different behaviours.
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