Basic Income
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All citizens receive a regular, liveable and unconditional sum of money. The recipient is not required to work or look for work, and the payment is given independently of any other income.
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Mark Zuckerberg CEO at Facebook
An entrepreneurial culture thrives when it’s easy to try lots of new ideas. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things. There is something wrong with our system when I can make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can’t afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business.
Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web
It is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality
Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist
It comes from the right wing originally. Milton Friedman proposed it for example. From his point of view it was part of an effort to undermine welfare state measures. But it doesn’t have to have a reactionary component. It can be interpreted as something progressive. That people have rights. In fact if you read the universal declaration of human rights, 1948, take a look at article 45. It says peo... See More
Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Investor. Studied at Harvard University.
I completely agree that Universal Basic Income is a good idea. But I think that’s just the beginning of the discussion.
Pedro Domingos Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm'
In developed countries, we don't let people starve or go without emergency medical care, so we effectively already have a basic income. Let's start by making it less random and inefficient.
Paul Buchheit Lead developer of Gmail, founder of FriendFeed. and investor in Y Combinator
I don't have to work. I choose to work. And I believe that everyone deserves the same freedom I have. If done right, it's also economically superior, meaning that we will all have more wealth. We often talk about how brilliant or visionary Steve Jobs was, but there are probably millions of people just as brilliant as he was. The difference is that they likely didn't grow up with great parents, am... See More
Moshe Vardi AI and Automation Expert With 30 Yrs Experience
we may have to consider instituting a Basic Income Guarantee
Ray Kurzweil Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist
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. This practical social support program can grow as science & technology rapidly evolve, becoming part of world abundance.
Martin Ford Author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Another reason for a basic income - Old and on the Street: The Graying of America’s Homeless
Chris Hughes Co-founder of Facebook
I’m supportive of the idea of a basic income over the long term and believe that one day something of this size will likely be necessary to cope with the impact of automation and globalized trade on the United States.Disagree:
Andrew Ng Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
I do not believe in unconditional basic income because this just encourages people to be trapped in low skilled jobs without a meaningful path to climb up to do better work. So rather than to pay people to “do nothing” I would rather see a new “New deal” where we pay you to study because I think that today we know how to educate people at scale and the society is pretty good at finding meaningf... See More
Bill Gates Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
Even the US isn't rich enough to allow people not to work. Some day we will be but until then things like the Earned Income Tax Credit will help increase the demand for labor.
