More importantly: it would not reduce the NEED to work. Giving everybody free money would just cause prices of everything to skyrocket, and you would still need

More importantly: it would not reduce the NEED to work. Giving everybody free money would just cause prices of everything to skyrocket, and you would still need to work your ass off all the same, to make the ends meet. You don't see that effect in the small-scale experiments, because they are too small to affect economy as whole.