Tech's favorite policy, universal basic income, is about to get its first big test 6,000 Kenyans will get cash grants for at least a decade By Ben Popper on April 18, 2016 10:07 am Over the last two years Silicon Valley has fallen in love with a striking economic theory. As former Facebook executive Sam Lessin wrote recently, "ThereÂ’s been a dinner-time revival of the old conversation about the inevitable need for a guaranteed basic income in the United States." ItÂ’s ironic that in the heart of winner-take-all venture capital culture, there is a growing call for a massive...