Obviously when you give a small subset of a disadvantaged population money, that subset will thrive. When you give all disadvantaged people the same thing, have

Obviously when you give a small subset of a disadvantaged population money, that subset will thrive. When you give all disadvantaged people the same thing, have you done more than raise the floor, creating a population of slightly richer but still disadvantaged individuals? We don't know because we keep trying it on subsets. We've seen this trial plenty of times[0], the outcome is always the same. We either need to give up on UBI or start larger programs. More small trials isn't going to help anyone other than the ~hundreds of people who were lucky enough to win that particular lottery. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots