re: Chicago giving out $500 a Month for one year, No Strings Attached

A quasi UBI was tried in a town in Manitoba in the 70s. Economically it didn't work but the social engineers loved it.

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But when the experiment ended in 1979, the improvements which had been seen in health and education soon returned to how things had been in 1974. Taylor remembers how many of the small businesses that had sprung up over the preceding four years began to vanish. Her husband was forced to close their shop, and the couple soon left Dauphin for good.

“After the programme ended, we moved to Ontario in 1980 because there was nothing to stay for anymore,” she says. “It just wasn’t doing very well.”

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My favorite part, how utterly spoiled it made the residents. The town grew during UBI years, then shrank back to what it was, which was no longer good enough for the original residents.