For a beneficiary, this assistance represents much more than additional income, to the point of making her cry when she found out she had been chosen.
She still receives some social assistance, but now manages to save part of her salary, and the family now lives in a house in Watsonville with a large garden.
The beneficiaries continued to receive this amount even if they found work.
His testimony illustrates one of the limits of these experiments: if additional income can immediately improve the lives of beneficiaries, what happens when it disappears?
Leaving the work to AI and the decisions to humans is an untenable utopia.