I’m not sure how these lottery programs help to test anything. I think people understand that giving people $1k has benefits to them. The question is about wh

I’m not sure how these lottery programs help to test anything. I think people understand that giving people $1k has benefits to them. The question is about whether the cost is sustainable across a large population (LA has $4M people so finding $4B/month will be tricky) and the effects on labor and inflation. These projects don’t seem to have a clear hypothesis and basically amount to “do people like cake? Let’s see”