GiveDirectly is doing an experiement with basic income (see here for more explanation…

GiveDirectly is doing an experiement with basic income (see here for more explanation about what basic income is: https://goo.gl/LvOrop) wherein they're giving 6000 Kenyans a guaranteed cash flow for 10 years. The amount they're giving seems to basically match what the average income these people are already actually making…$250-$400 per year. 

A charity’s radical experiment: giving 6,000 Kenyans enough money to escape poverty for a decade
This is a big deal.

  1. Fantastic. UBI has been proposed by various people over at least 200 years, but we're just now really studying it in vivo rather than theorizing about it (a couple of small scale experiments aside).

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