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It is an experiment. If the experiment shows a big enough benefit (increase in productivity, reduced costs on healthcare, improvements on education, etc) then,
by clueless123 10y ago
It is an experiment. If the experiment shows a big enough benefit (increase in productivity, reduced costs on healthcare, improvements on education, etc) then, you start thinking where is that money coming from.
- notahacker 10y agoBut we don't need to run an experiment to know that giving 6000 people regular income will make them generally better off; that's obvious, especially in the context of a developing country. We need to run an experiment to identify whether redistributing tax money to everybody equally and unconditionally results in better outcomes than various other existing or proposed systems of needs-based handouts, which is a completely different scenario, not least because for a significant proportion of people in the experiment this is going to represent a reduction in their current incomes or other benefits.