Have u seen the news about the UBI for artists in Ireland. A good start but, only that, a start. It started with a lottery selection of 2,000 applicants and now the scheme is rolled out, they started with the initial 2,000 that were enroled.

The maths says ( lies damn lies and statistics ofc), that the money spent actually generated more economic activity that it costs and the artists managed to sell more work in aggregate during the scheme than they did before it ( or more a month , or some such number), presumably because they could now eat without needing to spend all their time and energy working for minimum wage to pay rent.

Hopefully they expand it, and put some effort in to ensure that it goes to the right ppl and not scammers, we'll see. An interesting exercise and I think artists are the perfect group for UBI now that wealthy Florentine patrons are rather thin on the ground