In my opinion, &quot;we tried this before&quot; and it didn&#x27;t work. We didn&#x27;t call it Basic Income, but we have some historcal examples of large scale attempts to guarantee everyone gets a share. Famous failures include communism.<p>I do not care how you arrange this research, it will not tell you what will happen under real world conditions. There is plenty of instructive data from the real world that you can look at. For example, about 2&#x2F;3 of lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years.<p>When people get unearned money, most of them piss it away. &quot;Easy come, easy go.&quot; I have thought long and hard about this. I don&#x27;t have time to write an opus on it today, and I imagine it wouldn&#x27;t be welcome anyway. Here are a couple of things I wrote previously:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;ubi-we-tried-this-before-and-its.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;ubi-we-tried...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-conversation-we-need-to-have.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-conversa...</a>