A lot of the “UBI” experiments that have been done haven’t really been UBI in that they haven’t been universal. Most have been very localized and limited, almost always with some form of means-testing. At least in the USA, the closest we’ve come to truly universal UBI is the Alaska Permanent Fund but even there the amounts doled out have been rather small, never having exceeded $4,000 a year.
We did have a couple of Covid relief payments but they weren’t ongoing and they were means tested.
“Conservatives” in the U.S. may have whined about those payments being socialist but I don’t remember seeing a single story about anyone refusing the payouts as a matter of principle. Everybody seems to have accepted the money.
There was one in Finland a few years ago that chose a small location to trial it and the results were promising. But, the problem with trials is that the results rarely scale accurately. It really needs to be tried at scale, with a few different models to see what works.
If everyone else is doing it.... Nazi Germany acted the same.
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Same here - and for other benefits and concessions.