> it is not fun to have grand economic ideas experimented on a live population. True, but unfortunately there is no other way to test the validity of economic

> it is not fun to have grand economic ideas experimented on a live population. True, but unfortunately there is no other way to test the validity of economic theories. You can't simulate a human society in a lab. At best, you can start experimenting on a small subset of humans and expand once you're sure that it's safe. Guess what, there have been several UBI experiments in various places ranging from Namibia to Canada, and the results seem promising. Japan does sound like a good place for large-scale experiments like this. But even that might be too ambitious for now, with 130 million lives at stake. Perhaps we should try Norway, Finland, Switzerland and/or Iceland first.