People already could just be unemployed and live on state aid in Finland. Not all of them do. In a way the nordic wellfare state itself can be held as a prototy

People already could just be unemployed and live on state aid in Finland. Not all of them do. In a way the nordic wellfare state itself can be held as a prototype for a nation wide UBI since people are not forced to work out of fear of starvation (in the general context - I know people can live still in poverty and misery in these systems).