How Finland's Basic Income Experiment Will Work
Yes, speaking of experiments, I don&#x27;t see why the U.S. doesn&#x27;t run a large scale experiment to see what the effects of a basic income are.  Select a small but not insignificant demographic.  Pay them a not-means-tested monthly stipend.  Since this is only a test, you should be able to pay for it with a modest tax on paychecks for the rest of the citizens.  Then wait a while, and see what happens.  We would want to make sure it cuts across a broad swath of society, so that special interests don&#x27;t wreck havoc when interpreting the results.  So we&#x27;d want rich and poor, of all races, etc..  We should then be able to look at the recipients, and tell if they were more likely or less likely to be employed.  And we should be able to see if they spending their time creating cutting-edge art, and new innovative music, while writing inspiring novels, and discovering new scientific facts and mathematical theorems.  To be doubly sure that we aren&#x27;t merely papering over any medical insurance issues (what with medical inflation and all), we might also create a separate medical payment system to cover their medical expenses.  Of course, this should be a long running experiment, so that any short term economic and societal effects will have time to average out.  Let&#x27;s propose to run this experiment, for, I don&#x27;t know, maybe 80 years.