Somehow this sounds like starting with the easy case. It may well be, that people who get basic income in a pilot study behave better than people who get basic

Somehow this sounds like starting with the easy case. It may well be, that people who get basic income in a pilot study behave better than people who get basic income as a right, however this seems to accentuate the benefits of basic income, so that you can at least study one half of the argument. And the complicated parts can then wait for a follow up study.