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I'm a strong proponent of a UBI, and I agree with you 100%. But you make it sound like most UBI advocates are insisting it be inplemented in one fell swoop and

I'm a strong proponent of a UBI, and I agree with you 100%. But you make it sound like most UBI advocates are insisting it be inplemented in one fell swoop and have no idea how to test it empirically. That's not the case at all: this was one such test, and I'm eager to see the actual methodology and results. Another is being run by YC itself. This isn't some imaginary proposal that can never fail and can only be failed.

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
> you make it sound like most UBI advocates are insisting it be inplemented in one fell swoop Pardon me, didn't mean to come across that way. The history of social programs informs us to start small and scale carefully. If a program doesn't work in a town, it's unlikely to work nationwide.
- scarmig 9y ago
  We're probably in agreement, then. Though, with a caveat: sometimes it can fail in a town but succeed on a wider scale. For instance, a city offering generous, open-access homeless benefits is almost doomed to have all its benefits swamped as it attracts homeless from around the country, but that doesn't give us much information about how the same policies would work if implemented nation-wide. In the case of the UBI, though, those effects can be worked around by designing the experiment well.