The following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support or are working for the introduction of a
universal basic income (UBI).
French politician
Lionel Stoléru argued for UBI in 1974, remarking that it would provide “a means of suppressing and simplifying the entire current series of social programmes”.[134]
Götz Werner, founder, co-owner, and member of the advisory board of dm-drogerie markt[139]
Notes
^However, note that Bill Gates said that it is too early to implement a universal basic income in 2017. He said that "even the US isn't rich enough [yet] to allow people not to work", but "over time countries will be [...]". Overall, there is "[...] still [...] a lot of work that should be done [...]".
Source: Weller, Chris (27 February 2017).
"Bill Gates says it's too early for basic income, but over time 'countries will be rich enough'". www.businessinsider.com.
Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^"Critique of Economic Reason"Archived 2008-10-06 at the
Wayback Machine, André Gorz, in: Peter Waterman, Ronaldo Munck, "Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order", Macmillan, London, 1999
^
abcWiderquist, Karl (18 October 2017).
"Basic income's third wave". openDemocracy.
Archived from the original on 25 December 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
^"Empire"(PDF).
Archived(PDF) from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2018. Michael Hardt – Italian Marxist sociologist Antonio Negri, "
Empire", Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 403
^Vogel, Marcus Noack, Romek.
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen". www.jobverde.de (in German).
Archived from the original on 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-13.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
^Thornhill, John (14 March 2016). [A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal "A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal"]. Financial Times. London. {{
cite news}}: Check |url= value (
help)
^Hyun-ju, Ock (8 June 2020).
"Universal basic income emerges as political hot potato in S. Korea". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 20 September 2022. Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung, who is a longtime advocate of the basic income system, reiterated his support for the system.
^George, Henry (1901) [1885]. "The Crime of Poverty". Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings.
Doubleday and McClure Company. pp. 217–218.
ISBN978-0526825431. As an English friend of mine puts it: No taxes and a pension for everybody; and why should it not be? To take land values for public purposes is not really to impose a tax, but to take for public purposes a value created by the community. And out of the fund which would thus accrue from the common property, we might, without degradation to anybody, provide enough to actually secure from want all who were deprived of their natural protectors or met with accident, or any man who should grow so old that he could not work. All prating that is heard from some quarters about its hurting the common people to give them what they do not work for is humbug. The truth is, that anything that injures self-respect, degrades, does harm; but if you give it as a right, as something to which every citizen is entitled to, it does not degrade. Charity schools do degrade children that are sent to them, but public schools do not.
^George, Henry (1901) [1885]. "Land and Taxation: A Conversation Between David Dudley Field and Henry George". Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings. New York:
Doubleday and McClure Company. p. 230.
ISBN978-0526825431.
^Economists' Statement on Guaranteed Annual Income, 1/15/1968-4/18/1969 folder, General Correspondence Series, Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Cited in: Jyotsna Sreenivasan,
"Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia."Archived 2016-06-29 at the
Wayback Machine (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), page 269
^Brooks, Libby (25 December 2017).
"Scotland united in curiosity as councils trial universal basic income". The Guardian.
Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020. Universal basic income is, according to its many and various supporters, an idea whose time has come. The deceptively simple notion of offering every citizen a regular payment without means testing or requiring them to work for it has backers as disparate as Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, Caroline Lucas and Richard Branson.
^Ailsa McKay, "Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias", Work Employment & Society, June 2007, vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 337–348
The following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support or are working for the introduction of a
universal basic income (UBI).
French politician
Lionel Stoléru argued for UBI in 1974, remarking that it would provide “a means of suppressing and simplifying the entire current series of social programmes”.[134]
Götz Werner, founder, co-owner, and member of the advisory board of dm-drogerie markt[139]
Notes
^However, note that Bill Gates said that it is too early to implement a universal basic income in 2017. He said that "even the US isn't rich enough [yet] to allow people not to work", but "over time countries will be [...]". Overall, there is "[...] still [...] a lot of work that should be done [...]".
Source: Weller, Chris (27 February 2017).
"Bill Gates says it's too early for basic income, but over time 'countries will be rich enough'". www.businessinsider.com.
Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^"Critique of Economic Reason"Archived 2008-10-06 at the
Wayback Machine, André Gorz, in: Peter Waterman, Ronaldo Munck, "Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order", Macmillan, London, 1999
^
abcWiderquist, Karl (18 October 2017).
"Basic income's third wave". openDemocracy.
Archived from the original on 25 December 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
^"Empire"(PDF).
Archived(PDF) from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2018. Michael Hardt – Italian Marxist sociologist Antonio Negri, "
Empire", Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 403
^Vogel, Marcus Noack, Romek.
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen". www.jobverde.de (in German).
Archived from the original on 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-13.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
^Thornhill, John (14 March 2016). [A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal "A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal"]. Financial Times. London. {{
cite news}}: Check |url= value (
help)
^Hyun-ju, Ock (8 June 2020).
"Universal basic income emerges as political hot potato in S. Korea". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 20 September 2022. Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung, who is a longtime advocate of the basic income system, reiterated his support for the system.
^George, Henry (1901) [1885]. "The Crime of Poverty". Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings.
Doubleday and McClure Company. pp. 217–218.
ISBN978-0526825431. As an English friend of mine puts it: No taxes and a pension for everybody; and why should it not be? To take land values for public purposes is not really to impose a tax, but to take for public purposes a value created by the community. And out of the fund which would thus accrue from the common property, we might, without degradation to anybody, provide enough to actually secure from want all who were deprived of their natural protectors or met with accident, or any man who should grow so old that he could not work. All prating that is heard from some quarters about its hurting the common people to give them what they do not work for is humbug. The truth is, that anything that injures self-respect, degrades, does harm; but if you give it as a right, as something to which every citizen is entitled to, it does not degrade. Charity schools do degrade children that are sent to them, but public schools do not.
^George, Henry (1901) [1885]. "Land and Taxation: A Conversation Between David Dudley Field and Henry George". Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings. New York:
Doubleday and McClure Company. p. 230.
ISBN978-0526825431.
^Economists' Statement on Guaranteed Annual Income, 1/15/1968-4/18/1969 folder, General Correspondence Series, Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Cited in: Jyotsna Sreenivasan,
"Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia."Archived 2016-06-29 at the
Wayback Machine (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), page 269
^Brooks, Libby (25 December 2017).
"Scotland united in curiosity as councils trial universal basic income". The Guardian.
Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020. Universal basic income is, according to its many and various supporters, an idea whose time has come. The deceptively simple notion of offering every citizen a regular payment without means testing or requiring them to work for it has backers as disparate as Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, Caroline Lucas and Richard Branson.
^Ailsa McKay, "Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias", Work Employment & Society, June 2007, vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 337–348