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Comment by Klaus Wellershof

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Chairman of the Board of Wellershoff & Partners. Previously Chief Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation
An unbiased support for everyone? I think this principle will eventually assert itself, indeed I believe it is a necessity.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I could not verify this as a real, verbatim quote from a reliable transcript. The exact English wording does appear on YouCongress, but that page itself labels the entry "AI Unverifiable" and only points back to the YouTube link, so it is not independent confirmation. Other sources do show Klaus Wellershoff was publicly associated with/supportive of basic income, but I did not find a reliable subtitle file, transcript, or article containing this exact wording. Also, BIEN’s post for the linked video identifies the YouTube upload as December 20, 2013, not 2016. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Author attribution is correct: Klaus Wellershof (former UBS Chief Economist, Chairman of Wellershoff & Partners) is a well-documented supporter of unconditional basic income. He contributed to the book "Die Befreiung der Schweiz" on UBI, spoke at the 2011 Basic Income Congress in Zurich, and has been quoted saying nearly identical statements (e.g., "The proposal of decoupling social insurance from any performance requirement — unconditional support of people — is a principle that I think will prevail in the long run, indeed must prevail"). The quote content is consistent with his known views. Vote direction ("for" on "Implement a universal basic income") is correct. However, the source URL (https://youtu.be/ViywrpAyVdY?t=225) is a YouTube video that could not be fetched due to egress restrictions, so the specific source cannot be verified programmatically. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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