It´s not just a critique, I was writing fast from the iphone and I haven´t explained my point completely. I think that in places like that small towns where people is "owned" by the landlord and a vicious circle of debt and low wages, it´s a necessary to use a system like BI to brake the chains and improve the living conditions. In fact in Spain country living conditions in certain areas, used to be quite similar to those of india(surely not that extreme, but not that far off at the beginning of the XX century). People lived in towns that where inside big landlords (most of them old nobility). The landlord used to be like a small king in their lands able to change the fate of families, that have to pay land rents. So the public wages was a big help to end that problem (that and the emigration to the cities that reduced the population). But there is moment when this no-conditions money just keeps people from improving further. You may see it as an engine starter, without it, is impossible to start the engine, if you stop it too early, the whole engine will stop again, but if you keep it engaged it will drag the engine and keep it from working properly.