“The aim is to gain a scientific understanding on how people’s behavior and attitudes change when they receive money regularly without conditions, reported Spiegel who interviewed DIW researcher Jürgen Schupp.”
1.They will end up not appreciating it.
2.Soon they will demand more
3. Once everybody gets, $1200 will be the new zero, as prices will naturally increase
4. It will be one more reason for invaders to invade.
5. Druggies and deadbeats will multiply
What else did I miss?
Based on the way they constructed the ‘test’, I would say three things come out of this:
1. Money doesn’t buy happiness.
2. The crowd in the test without the extra money will prove that they did OK.
3. The crowd getting the extra money will prove that they never had a plan on making better use of the money, and the plan would have made better use.
All of this comes to economic knowledge/coaching and making people smarter on saving and spending. If you (as the government or some private entity) would spend more effort on teaching people better habits, they’d save money and be more thrifty.
To give $1200 per person they will have to tax an extra $1200 per person on average.
You missed the part where “the government will agree to pay when you when you volunteer for sterilization”. I truly believe UBI will happen, but it will be predicated on “volunteer birth control”.