A charity's radical experiment: giving 6,000 Kenyans a guaranteed basic income for a decade

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2. they are getting 70 cents to $1.25 per day

not exactly a living wage.

I am not saying they will not appreciate having their income double, but

the argument against a minimum income is

If people can get their needs met without working, why would anybody work? And if almost nobody works, then how do you sustain this basic minimum income? In this experiment the minimum income is clearly NOT enough to give most people an incentive to stop working.

I am also always curious about prices. What can they buy with $2? In America that would only get you about two hamburgers, or a half gallon of milk or something. It would not come close to putting a roof over your head. So are they somehow living rent and tax free? And can they do things like - buy a whole chicken for 50 cents? Or would they be more like us - buy a bag of flour, get some free water from a stream, catch some rabbits and make a stew (or some such subsistence life)?