Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says

Basically, most people want to do something meaningful with their time so they'll work with something they like. Most millionaires still work for example, even though they have means enough to stop at any time.

And if you wanted more money, why wouldn't you work part time, to have a more confortable life ?

They made a study on a basic income, it cost huge amounts of money, and it was build to fail by declaring a stupid goal.

The other results look quite promising, but I tried looking into the data and unfortunately it's very weak. They made only questionaires and the return rates were very low, so it doesn't say much. They had really stupid mistakes in the report (confusing p-values and chi^2 values, wrong additions), all seems really sloppy.

In sum they made a study on a stupid goal, and the real results are not very meaningful due to poor methodological quality of the stury.

Now, obviously that's a bit against the capitalist grain and all that, but think of it this way:

the Luddite rebellion, and mass unrest happened in the UK because people's livelihoods were taken away. Either through automation, or enclosure.

This left thousands upon thousands of people with little left to lose forced to crime in order to eat.

This is expensive for wider society, you need to spend money of security, courts, jail, insurance public damages.

Paying money to make them happy, so that they don't _have_ to turn to crime, or a radical dictator candidate is a price worth paying.