[hurin]

If you'd actually bothered to read the article you'd see that in the pilot project productivity went up.

Unemployment dropped as well, from 60% to 45%, and there was a 29% increase in average earned income, excluding the basic income grant.

Also from the wiki link posted by OP:

As published in a recent report, "All those dollars low-wage workers spend create an economic ripple effec. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of low-wage workers, standard economic multiplier models tell us, adds about $1.21 to the national economy. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of a high-income American, by contrast, only adds about 39 cents to the GDP."

There could be statistics that support the argument that you are making as well but I don't think that:

> "I'd have to imagine..."

without any references to support your statement contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.