Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
<i>Jobless people generally cannot earn additional income while collecting unemployment benefits or they risk losing that assistance.</i><p>Worst.  Idea.  Ever.<p>I know -- it's a common feature of income support systems, including here in the US.<p>I don't know whether UBI is going to prove workable or not.  But even if it doesn't, if we could just redesign the systems we do have so they never give recipients a disincentive to work more, that would be a huge, huge improvement.