In short, steembasicincome is like a sponsorship programme. You send 1 Steem (or however many you want) to @steembasicincome then in the memo, put one username you would like to sponsor (can't be you).
You and the person you sponsor get an sbi share/unit for however many steem you send. This is worth about $0.003 per share.
Then you both will get an upvote depending on how many sbi shares/units you have, every time you post... For life.
It's a great investment and I've built up to around 400 shares so have around $0.07 upvote per post (I post daily so it averages out per week).
It's pretty cool, I like it 😁
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