as rudd bregman details in his book utopia for realists u.b.i. has been tried many times in canada and alaska and africa and europe there was a study in britain where 13 men who had lived in the streets for years were given $3000.00 pounds each about $4500.00 at the time did they use it for the hundreds of all men milk lattes or giant bags of cracker or drivers wadded up and white themselves. no it turns out not 18 months after getting the money over half were no longer holist and all of them had improved their lives significantly in the mid beyond figures for malnutrition took a nosedive from 42 percent to 10 percent as did those for truancy from 40 percent to nothing and crime down by 42 percent so you're telling the story. you tell me there's practically a silver bullet for ending poverty and decreasing crime well we better avoid that like the plague. me let's go back to giving homeless people can a soup and a pair of socks if they collect enough cans they can build a house. basic income is not untested by 2010 there were income transfer progr