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They're calling it Basic Income, not Universal Basic Income. The goal being to see what the differences are between the unemployed and the control group.

There may be other issues baked into the implementation, but it will be hard to say the result until it goes into action and we start getting data

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I agree. The implementation here will still enable us to learn about some aspects of UBI. The question of how benefits affect the motivation to gain re-employment will still need to be studied in further experiments.

I think it's worth celebrating that Iceland is doing controlled tests to explore this way. To really understand the best design for UBI, we need more of this.

It's Finland, not Iceland.

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