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Creator of Popular Webseries Zero Punctuation
There's probably a huge amount of problems in the world that would probably be fixed if there was a guaranteed income
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I found a secondary page that attributes this line to Yahtzee Croshaw and links to the same 2016 YouTube source, but that page itself labels the quote "AI Unverifiable." I was not able to locate a reliable transcript or another primary source containing the exact wording, and the cited YouTube URL could not be fetched here for direct checking. So I cannot confirm that the quote is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Vote alignment is correct: the quote expresses support for guaranteed income, matching the "for" vote on "Implement a universal basic income". Author bio is accurate (Yahtzee Croshaw is the creator of Zero Punctuation). However, the source URL is a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztF_swww98&t=3231) which cannot be fetched due to platform access restrictions. Web searches for this specific quote attributed to Yahtzee Croshaw returned no corroborating results. Marking as ai_unverifiable because the source cannot be checked programmatically. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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