> No, they prove that people who are in a program that is very clearly temporary will not end their careers for a short pilot program. This means nothing. This

> No, they prove that people who are in a program that is very clearly temporary will not end their careers for a short pilot program. This means nothing. This argument reads like a strawman, and is detached from reality. The argument about the risk of people quitting their job because of basic income is based on the idea that those who are forced to work shitty jobs to have a source of income (i.e., wage slavery) won't have to subject themselves to it if they already have a source of income. More importantly, people who live in wage slavery don't have careers, they have a job. They are bound to an activity or even an employer who ensures they have a paycheck as long as they do their job. I mean, do you honestly believe that a minimum wage job doing non-specialized tasks that anyone anywhere can do and can replace you in a moment's notice counts as a career? Of course it isn't. It's just something you do to pay the bills. Do you honestly believe no one would quit that as soon as they have a way to pay the bills? > No. If you make $1k from a job and $1k from a pilot program each month, you spend the $1k from the pilot on legitimate bills and now you have $1k to spend however you like. Your take on the program is very disingenuous, specially in the way you try to frame the old job as being the provider of all the brand new goodies and luxuries and fancy spending while the new source of income adds nothing more beyond taking care of the expenses that were already taken care of. Suffice to say, I'd participants were stuck with their old income, they wouldn't be able to afford anything, would they? Basic income supplies an income baseline. That means people cease to be tied to a repulsive job just to make ends meet. How they generate disposable income is up to them. With basic income you're free to pick high-reward but low-paying jobs, or even no job at all if you are willing to live a frugal life. That's the kind of change that will be studied in these programs.