Make ends meet. How Y Combinator will experiment with unconditional income

In January 2016, the famous Y Combinator business incubator announced its plans to finance a long-term study on unconditional income. Partly - to dispel the fears that automation of jobs will make people unemployed. Then, in his blog, the President of the company Sam Altman called the introduction of the Institute of unconditional income at the national level "a good answer to some theoretical questions."

It was necessary for people to give people money without any conditions so that they could live on them, according to Altman, it was necessary to achieve a real equality of opportunities and progress in the destruction of poverty. He expressed the hope that Y Combinator will be able to allocate money to a group of Americans for 5 years.

The other day, almost 3 years after that publication, the YC Research Research Department said that he would begin the study next year. This may have upset sponsors, but in general this delay - good from the point of view of science, said the director of the project Elizabeth Ruds. The article with unconditional income is being devoted to the way the Y Combinator experiment is being advanced.

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