This is not a typical SRS post. I don't know who funds this organisation or who these researchers are but this particular research seems well meaning. That being said the "startup mentality" thing is incredibly weird. Even their website look like a tech company's. Maybe they wanted to convince the techbro cohort that the riff-raff do not spend extra income on drugs and booze and thought this to be an effective measure.

This research seems to be testing the waters for UBI. What I don't understand is that this does not really look like some sort of revelation. People were given a significant amount of money for free and their lives, generally speaking, improved. Is this really something that they had to bring their startup mentality to the table for?