I don’t know anything about the program but it doesn’t sound like it was really UBI at all from this description in the article. If it was a) only available to

I don’t know anything about the program but it doesn’t sound like it was really UBI at all from this description in the article. If it was a) only available to unemployed and b) only a pilot with 2,000 people then I guess it’s easy to ignore it as a data point. Though maybe that paragraph is poorly worded and it was actually more extensive? >>> “Finland was considered the first European country to pay a monthly check of $685 to its unemployed between ages 25 and 58. It was considered a pilot program — serving 2,000 randomly selected jobless people — that its founders hoped to expand.” Edit Additionally Googling for Finland UBI experiment yields countless articles claiming it was neither a failure, nor proper UBI