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A village in Kenya is quietly disproving the biggest myth about basic income
- siruncledrew 9y agoThat's good for Kenya, but the cultural differences on spending are very different between Kenya and Western countries. It makes total sense Kenyans would favor spending money on necessities because necessities are not always around. Like, it's plausible you could actually run into people without electricity or a toilet. In the US, that is practically unheard of. Our expectations for "basic necessities" exceed the bare bones necessities places like Kenya see and don't take for granted as much as we do. When we take those things for granted, they are suddenly devalued and not as priority budget items.