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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.
Molly Crabapple Artist
The number one thing that would let more independent artists exists in America is a universal basic income.
Dustin Moskovitz Co-founder of Facebook
How can we help as many people as possible as much as possible with the resources we have?
Joe Kaeser CEO of Siemens
A kind of basic income will be absolutely inevitable
Richard Branson Founder of Virgin (400 companies)
Policies like these can help people struggling just to survive and allow them to get on their feet, be entrepreneurial and be more creative.
Bill Gross American investor, co-Founder of PIMCO
If more and more workers are going to be displaced by robots, then they will need money to live on, will they not? And if that strikes you as a form of socialism, I would suggest we get used to it
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.
Nick Hanaeur Billionaire, Amazon Investor
As we have ever higher rates of technological innovation, and every higher rates of automation, the basic guaranteed income is one such innovation which indeed may be a phenomenal idea. We need to try it.
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.
Bill Gross Billionaire investor, Janus Capital
Instead we should spend money where it’s needed most – our collapsing infrastructure for instance, health care for an aging generation and perhaps on a revolutionary new idea called UBI – Universal Basic Income. If more and more workers are going to be displaced by robots, then they will need money to live on, will they not?Disagree:
