The details do not matter, except to say that this is precisely the sort of experiment that might be carried out in space, in order to eliminate the distorting effects of gravity.
Anyone who is skeptical on this point should do the following mental experiment: if I promised to pay 89 percent of the cost of your groceries, would what you buy be different?
Which leads us rather to the conclusion that while we should of course finish the experiment we should also be trying to work out what else we might do that might successfully reduce this abject poverty.