probably too late for a meaningful comment -<p>any screening you do on basic income recipients totally invalidates the point of studying basic income (and basic income itself), beyond some really basic stuff.  my suggestion : pick a town &#x2F; neighborhood &#x2F; whatever at random (preferably relatively poor with a population between 500-1000) and give everyone living in it at the time $1k&#x2F;month over the next 5 years (even if they move).  i think it&#x27;s safe &#x2F; wise to exclude anyone who&#x27;s retired or on disability since that defeats the purpose of the experiment as they already receive entitlement funds.  how you handle children i have no idea.  maybe parents should get a reduced amount per child?<p>in other words, if you have qualifications like &quot;poor and motivated&quot;, or even just &quot;poor&quot;, then the basic income experiment is really a grant program.  it&#x27;s really important philosophically that you DON&#x27;T NEED TO DO ANYTHING to get basic income.  most work is NOT VALUABLE.  society is better off with more people being &quot;lazy&quot; and doing whatever they feel like, especially as automation increases in prevalence and importance. if 50% of people on basic income decide not to work, that&#x27;s fine because the other 50% will be perfectly capable of doing everything that actually needs to get done, particularly with the safety net of not having to worry about failure quite so much.