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The Importance of One-Time Transfers
I think we're not yet in a world in which it's realistic to expect people from global north to pay every month to support the income of people in the global south. And I think there are reasonable questions to ask about dependency and whether that's sustainable. We're demonstrating the technology and the mechanisms for doing universal basic income. But actually what we're doing is transforming people's lives to a single donation where we make it clear that this isn't something that they're going to be getting every month, but which we hope will give them a chance of improving their conditions.