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Comment by Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon

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Ethics professor at Simon Fraser University.
They present themselves as benefactors, they turn recipients of universal basic income into passive beneficiaries of a system they do not control and, above all, they shift the focus: Instead of questioning the concentration of capital and power, we end up debating the amount of a benefit.
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Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, quoted in “Universal basic income, the utopian idea resurging in Silicon Valley,” Le Monde, June 14, 2026.
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AI Verified Verified against the cited source: the stored wording and attribution to Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon are supported by https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/06/14/universal-basic-income-the-utopian-idea-resurging-in-silicon-valley_6754473_23.html. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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