What if you did it in some moderately isolated place, like Alaska?
Alaska already has almost-universal not-quite-basic income:
Alaska already has almost-universal not-quite-basic income:
If you're not asking them to fund it, you're not testing UBI, you're testing "if an external entity provides money to a community without asking for anything in return, will that be cool?"
The APF is funded by severance taxes on oil & mining. I suspect that most people are entirely fine with that tax model.
The problem is that it only supports a small benefit.
That's income, even if it's not denominated in dollars.
Presumably they also own land and a house, which is wealth.
The point behind the UBI concept that it does it's thing even if you have no income because you love somewhere where you can't farm your own food and have your own land with your own house in it.