Comment by dragonwriter

> We already had the world’s largest ubi experiment during Covid and it was a complete failure.

COVID response neither featured a UBI, nor saw everyone stop working (and the people who did stop working largely stopped working because of a combination of formal restrictions and voluntary behavior changes due to a contagious illness either banning their mode of business or resulting in them not having customers, additional government support, which was not structured as a UBI, was given because of that and to cushion the impact of it.)