The results from this experiment will likely be used to influence government policy at some point or another. Whoever is funding this effort is probably going t

The results from this experiment will likely be used to influence government policy at some point or another. Whoever is funding this effort is probably going to do that in phase 2, once the results are sufficiently in their favor. Isn't this a convoluted implementation of the Wal-Mart model? Keep minimum wages low and influence policy to be as such, so that people use food stamps, which are mostly spent at Wal-Mart. I remember Bernie Sanders talking about this during the 2016 campaign. I can't help but think that some corporate research department has already done a study on Universal Basic Income in terms of how it will affect the bottom line of the donors, and this is part of a plan to influence government policy in various parts of the world, with the ultimate end goal of lining their own pockets. I find this to be far more believable than the idea that people are genuinely altruistic and charitable in 2017, perhaps the most vain, narcissistic, virtue signalling self-obsessed period in history, which is a period that directly follows the most egregious example of corporate greed and fraud that led to the housing crisis and wall street collapse. I would be very skeptical of any and all data that is generated from such experiments until we know who the donors are. I think it's only fair to ask.