Please don’t generalize my arguments to scientific method as such, I am just talking about economy. A real-world economy is a wildly nonlinear system, a bit lik

Please don’t generalize my arguments to scientific method as such, I am just talking about economy. A real-world economy is a wildly nonlinear system, a bit like the weather. And there’s always something important you may fail to take into account, like the role of the private financial sector in the recent economic crisis. You may argue that we are now wiser and our models better, but the plain fact is that the degree of correspondence between our models and the real economic world is very poor. When you tweak a model for such a complex system, how do you scientifically know it’s better for predicting the future behaviour? It’s madness to think that you could reasonably model what would happen after introducing a minimal income.