A non peer reviewed white paper by an “independent” author written in first person. And horribly written. Looking more into it the independent author is this p

A non peer reviewed white paper by an “independent” author written in first person. And horribly written. Looking more into it the independent author is this person (Joshua Miller) “Joshua's research focuses on macroeconomic impacts of universal basic income. He also hosts the ThinkCritical Podcast and runs a blog called InTheAggregate. Joshua is a high school senior in New York.” https://www.ubicenter.org/about/our-team/ https://www.ubicenter.org/about/our-team/ Good for him for being a motivated high schooler. However, posting his essay as some kind of authoritative proof with Alaska as a generalizable example is absurd. There’s not enough data for stratification or identifying confounders. Alaska is not a typical American state in any way. UBI supporters, especially on that website, look like young academics living in wealthy urban areas in England and the US. That’s nice and all but maybe they should get out of their bubble. They’re just a bunch of stereotypes.