In the developing world, the charity GiveDirectly has committed to a randomised control trial in Kenya , comparing four villages, one of which will get a basic income.
Amid all this hype, policy talk has focused on the potential consequences of a basic income : things like population growth, a spike in divorce rates, increased entrepreneurship or additional leisure time. Such diverse possible outcomes should be expected. After all, the ambition of a universal basic income is to fundamentally alter the basis of social and economic integration.
silence over its effects on the social bonds that tie people together in a […]
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