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Comment by Tony Atkinson
Research Fellow at Oxford and Professor at the London School of Economics
I don’t in fact favour a basic income as such, what I favour is what I call a participation income
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Quote verified as authentic. Tony Atkinson is well-documented as distinguishing his "participation income" from unconditional basic income. The exact quote appears in interviews related to his book "Inequality: What Can Be Done?" (2015), where he explains his longstanding disagreement with Philippe Van Parijs on unconditional income. Multiple academic and policy sources confirm this position. Vote "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly reflects the quote's meaning. Source URL (socialeurope.eu) was blocked for direct verification, but the article title "Inequality: What Can Be Done?" matches the context of the quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Tony Atkinson