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Comment by Scott Ferguson
Assoc. Prof. of Humanities & Cultural Studies
Without an associated public Job Guarantee, the Universal Basic Income is merely welfare by another name: a laissez-faire solution to contemporary social and ecological crises.
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Verified via web search. The CounterPunch article "Universal Basic Income: a Laissez-Faire Future?" (Nov 13, 2015) by Scott Ferguson contains this exact quote. Ferguson, a professor at the University of South Florida, argues from an MMT perspective that UBI without a Job Guarantee is insufficient. The vote direction "against" implementing UBI is correct — the quote explicitly criticizes UBI as "merely welfare by another name: a laissez-faire solution." Source URL could not be fetched directly (domain blocked) but web search confirms the article exists at the given URL with matching content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Scott Ferguson