Universal Basic Income (UBI) Quotes
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Basic Income is not a utopia, it’s a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey — Jeremy Rifkin
I’m a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue — Andrew Yang
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Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution
— Stephen Hawking
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Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives
— Rutger Bregman
69 years ago today [December 10, 1948], the world came together to declare human beings had a human right to “an adequate standard of living,” and to this day, no nation has yet recognized that right with both universal health care & basic income — Scott Santens
69 years ago today, the world came together to declare human beings had a human right to “an adequate standard of living,” and to this day, no nation has yet recognized that right with both universal health care & basic income. https://t.co/iO0Vm1tLT8 #basicincome #HumanRightsDay pic.twitter.com/49RICUU6RX
— Scott Santens (@scottsantens) December 10, 2017
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What a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me
— Virginia Woolf
So long as you have Republicans in control of the House and the Senate, and so long as you have a Congress dominated by big money, I can guarantee you that the discussion about universal basic income is going to go nowhere in a hurry
— Bernie Sanders
There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation
— Elon Musk
We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas
— Mark Zuckerberg
Adopting a universal basic income for all people can help society think creatively with new ideas, develop new industries — and free-up people to work on important future projects
— Ray Kurzweil
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I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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A fraction of all wealth should be justly shared with everyone, because that fraction is created by everyone — Scott Santens
If you want to end survival sex work, demand universal basic income. If you want to kneecap international traffickers, demand open borders
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) August 7, 2015
If you want to end survival sex work, demand universal basic income. If you want to kneecap international traffickers, demand open borders
The number one thing that would let more independent artists exist in America is a universal basic income
— Molly Crabapple
1 in 10 dollars of income produced in this country is paid out to the richest 1% without them having to work for it.
— Matt Bruenig
Basic income works just have to give up belief the rich should tell the poor what to do — Karl Widerquist
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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share
— Henry Ford