[papercrane]

Studies like this are important to separate data from anecdotes and conjecture.

There are a lot of comments and conjecture that this will kill drive and increase drug use, but without actual data those are just hypothesis.

It is an interesting question around ethics of studies though. I'd be interested to see the ethics review for this study.

[Difwif]

I commented elsewhere that this happened to me. I might be an anecdote to you but I'm living out a case study from my perspective. I actually fully support things like a UBI but we can't ignore the problems it creates and damage it will cause. I know a huge point of the UBI is a lack of means testing but even Andrew Yang's proposal included an basic age cutoff.

Personally I think we need to accept that there should be some means testing but it just dictates whether the individual has control of the funds today or whether it goes into a trust that can only be used on specific things (food, shelter, recovery programs, etc.) and becomes completely available after some conditions are met (like a retirement fund).

[mrcrumb1]

Were you the recipient of a program like this? If not in what way are living out a case study?