On: Californians on universal basic income paid off debt and got full-time jobs

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because one's choices are going to be different with $500/mo temporarily vs $1k/mo for life. the former is a temporary windfall, the latter is UBI.

to actually test UBI, the amount needs to be substantial and with no end.

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Doesn’t sound like of a test so much as full implementation.

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Maybe there's a compromise that'll test it more thoroughly (break through the "windfall" mentality) without it going on forever. 10 years?

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it would still be a test of the system though, because it would only be a small subset of the population.