Well, the next one will be Italy experimenting something of the sort. The thing is senselessly called "reddito di cittadinanza" (citizenship income) while bein

Well, the next one will be Italy experimenting something of the sort. The thing is senselessly called "reddito di cittadinanza" (citizenship income) while being nothing but an extremely complicated version of "unemployment support". The actual details (that are not yet fully-fully defined AFAIK) are so stupid and ineffective in practice that it makes me cringe to list them. Anyway here are a few of them: you need to have a low income (fair) you will be proposed (maybe) during the period of two years no less than three jobs, these jobs will be proposed to you by the employment office (something that has historically never provided a job to anyone in the last thirty years) you will need to accept the job if it is within 250 km during first year and "anywhere" in Italy on second year (since presumably these jobs will be low-end ones, having to commute or move to another city is simply not feasible) you won't have actual money, but rather a sort of pre-paid card that you will be able to use (maybe) in (maybe) a number of conventioned stores to buy only some (approved) kind of goods (maybe "fair", but more than a tad bit "moralistic") if you don't spend within the month the whole allowance, next month it will be cut by 20% (pure folly)