EXPANDING THE EXPERIMENT
Scotland is about to join the slowly expanding list of countries that are experimenting with Universal Basic Income (UBI). These trial-runs are exploring a variety of different ways in which citizens will receive a guaranteed salary from the government, regardless of social status or any other factor. There are currently UBI experiments being run or seriously considered in areas of the United States, Canada, Germany, Finland, and a host of others, which are being funded both by governments and private organizations.
It seems that everyone from Nobel Prize winners, to Silicon Valley innovators, to even billionaire heads of multinational corporations are behind this idea.