A Brief History of America's Utopian Experiments in Communal Living between 1800-1860 by Lawrence Reed

Very recommendable! You can skip about the first 8 paragraphs or so. Utopia and dystopia are often close together.

Volunteer communism and collectivism has been tried before. It did not work very well in most cases!

There were about " 119 or so utopian communities of early 19th century America"

The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America's Utopian Experiments in Communal Living - Foundation for Economic Education What Brook Farm and other utopian communities of the 19th century sought is essentially unachievable. Yet the idea of a collectivist paradise remains alluring to many even today.

City of Cambridge, MA will give $500 a month to every family below the poverty line

This is a very slippery slope! First it is cities, then entire states, and followed or preempted by federal government. 

This is vote buying on steroids! Receiving money from the government is very seductive! It is a step towards the utopia of guaranteed universal basic income for everyone!

It starts small and grows. People get used to manna from heaven. Today it is $500 per month, tomorrow perhaps $1000 per month. Today, it is the poverty line, tomorrow perhaps the median income ...

Well as long as taxpayers can vote with their proverbial feet, this does not have a chance to go very far.

"... The direct cash assistance — in the form of $500 dollars per month for about 18 months — will be for every single eligible family under 200% of the federal poverty level in the city. ...
The city last year launched Cambridge RISE, a guaranteed income pilot for single caretakers that gave out monthly cash disbursements to 130 families. RISE has had a “life-changing, stabilizing impact” on these families, Siddiqui said."

Cambridge will give $500 a month to every family below the poverty line The first city in the country to take this step, the mayor said

Utopia: Ein Projekt ohne Erfolgsaussicht

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McKinsey & Company peddles universal basic income utopia

Truly amazing that this prestigious global consultancy firm is pushing such pie in the sky absurd, utopian nonsense that would bankrupt any country that implements UBI!

"Readers who are familiar with the inequality debate or the fears that robots will take all of our jobs will almost certainly have heard about the idea of a universal basic income. As typically conceived, basic-income programs are meant to provide a financial safety net, with no obligations and without the bureaucracy and associated administrative costs of means-tested benefits."
It will take at least 10-20 more years before robots will be able to do many laborious tasks! And who designs and builds robots? 

"... However, to date Finland is the only country that has managed to complete a nationwide randomized control trial of a basic-income program. ... It is also worth noting that the methods and conclusions of the Finnish study were not undisputed ... In Finland’s two-year study, a treatment group of 2,000 randomly picked, initially unemployed people received a guaranteed, unconditional, and automatic cash payment of a modest €560 per month instead of a basic unemployment allowance in similar amounts. ... Interestingly, the final results of Finland’s program, released this spring, found that a basic income actually had a positive impact on employment. People on the basic income were more likely to be employed than those in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant, albeit small."



An experiment to inform universal basic income | McKinsey As income inequality and economic upheaval take center stage, is a guaranteed minimum income worth considering? Results from a two-year experiment in Finland offer clues.

How a basic income experiment helped these Kenyans weather the Covid-19 crisis

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is promoting the utopia/fantasy of universal basic income!

In this research experiment conducted in Kenya only about 6,000 people from rural areas participated in a country of 51 million population. The 12 year study started only in 2017. One of the researchers of this study is from MIT.

Would this UBI extended to the whole population it would collapse for lack of financing!

How a basic income experiment helped these Kenyans weather the Covid-19 crisis - Vox People getting a UBI were less likely to go hungry as Kenya shut down

Here is the link to the so called preprint paper (which is not even published on the usual preprint servers, but on the website of a anti poverty advocacy group):
Effects of a Universal Basic Income during the pandemic