Everyone in this thread is writing as though this has never been tried before.<p>It has been tried at least five times (three in USA and twice in Canada).  The results have been re-analysed in recent years and show that the reduction in peoples willingness to work is very slight.<p>Of course if Finland does it over the whole country then this will be a much larger experiment than the US and Canadian ones.<p>I think that there are good reasons to believe that it will have a very positive effect.  It also gives greater bargaining power to the lowest paid so that it should help to prevent the reduction in wages that is becoming a feature of the low end of the employment market.