It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming for 12 years. It is a crucial test of what many consider one of the most cutting-edge ideas for alleviating global poverty. This week a team of independent researchers who have been studying the impact released their first results.
You’re more correct than you know. The rich have been funding studies since the 1950s to prove that “how it is, will be the best we will ever have,” and consistently those studies keep showing that if the rich would just pay people a thriving wage, they’d be magnitudes richer than there are.
The only conclusion I can reach is that since they have been shown the data for decades before the rest of us got a hold of it, they have decided to see how much unnecessary and needless death and suffering they can create before we start sniping them.
Their latest attempt to completely disregard reality was entitled: “You’ll own nothing, and be happy.”