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> Going one step in direction A should give you information about going further in that same direction So eating healthy for 1 day/week will change your blood
by brianwawok 9y ago
> Going one step in direction A should give you information about going further in that same direction
So eating healthy for 1 day/week will change your blood results and tell you that a year of it will make you lose 50 pounds?
So going to 1 day of college will make you measure differently on a test that checks critical thinking?
Different things take different amount of time to see results. I could see behaving very differently between
* This is a very temporary 1 year test of UBI *
vs
* You have a social safety net of UBI for your entire life, and can count on the income no matter what happens
- Nomentatus 9y agoIt's more that shorter experiments might tell you whether there are deep downsides even in the short-term. Not great information, not full information, but information; even if it's just a one-way test.
- dogma1138 9y agoIt’s not that they are completely useless it’s that they cannot test the actual affects on the economy. If you have a small scale UBI even if it’s on say a scale of a whole town it’s still not enough to evaluate the economic impact because the supply/demand economy isn’t that localized. We have other experiments that have shown to have a negative effect for example rent allowance in the UK which essentially set the lower limit for rent as no one rents below what the council would pay, this has increased rent prices even in places where there was no negative change in the supply and demand.