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Founder of Virgin (400 companies)
The hope is that policies like these can help people struggling just to survive and allow them to get on their feet, be entrepreneurial and be more creative.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified Verified relevant. Branson says policies like UBI can help people survive, get on their feet, and become more entrepreneurial and creative, supporting implementation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14d ago
AI Unverifiable The quote speaks generally about helping people survive and become entrepreneurial, but it never explicitly identifies universal basic income or clearly states a position on implementing it as a complete policy. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
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AI Verified Verified for. Branson explicitly frames UBI as helpful for entrepreneurship, creativity, and survival. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic: The Independent reproduces the exact sentence and attributes it to Richard Branson, and BIEN identifies the underlying Virgin post as Branson’s “Experimenting with Universal Basic Income,” published on August 14, 2017, which matches the stated year/source context. ([independent.co.uk](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/richard-branson-universal-basic-income-mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-virgin-ceo-a7911866.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote verified via web search. Multiple sources (CNBC, Yahoo Finance, IBTimes, August 2017) confirm Richard Branson wrote this in his Virgin blog post about experimenting with universal basic income after meeting with The Elders in Finland. The original quote begins with "The hope is that" which was missing — corrected the quote text. Vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly aligns with Branson's expressed support for UBI. Source URL (virgin.com/richard-branson/experimenting-universal-basic-income) is the primary source (Branson's own blog) but could not be directly fetched due to access restrictions; however, multiple secondary sources quoting the same article confirm the content. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago
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