Y Combinator Wants to Test a Revolutionary Economic Idea (Guaranteed basic income)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3435894/posts
Been following that on HN. The problem with that experiment is the money supplied is contributed _entirely_ voluntarily. You want to hand over money, no strings attached, to people claiming need? go right ahead. Communism crashes-and-burns when the productive have the fruits of their labors confiscated at [implied] gunpoint.