Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it in a big way
This is missing perhaps the most controversial part of the Universal Basic Income: that it&#x27;s funded by the same population that it&#x27;s helping.  This isn&#x27;t a fair test because it&#x27;s being funded by &quot;outside&quot; money, from a much richer source (investors and donors from the richest country on earth).  It&#x27;s a charity moreso than a real investigation of Universal Basic Income.<p>A more realistic test would be to take those 6,000 Kenyans, tax them in some way (e.g. take 2x from 3,000 people), then distribute the money equally.  And it would have to be done in one localized area to take care of the homogeneity problem (if the money is too sparsely distributed, prices won&#x27;t reflect the new money distribution).<p>As much as they talk about how scientifically the study must be done, and the rigorous testing, it seems that there are some holes in the experiment.