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> if UBI causes people to work less

My understanding is that UBI experiments show that is not the case. UBI is a safety net, and does not lead to a significant drop in labor. With the pending waves of AI and automation impacting labor we'd be well-served to continue to explore how to make it work.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32719/w327...



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