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Comment by Grant Cardone
Private Equity Fund Mgr
If someone is a taker rather than a maker, and becomes dependent on the government for their unemployment checks, that creates a victim mentality. I decided right then and there that I didn't want someone to give me a fish; I needed to be taught how to fish. If anyone wants to give you free cash, no questions asked, get suspicious. Universal basic income is a step to becoming a slave of the federal government. The Constitution of the U.S. talks about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."Disputed source (2017)
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Disputed: the underlying sentences are attributable to Grant Cardone in 2017—a Sept. 5, 2017 Niskanen Center commentary quotes those exact sentences and links them to the cited CNBC article—but the submitted block is not verbatim as presented. It splices two separate quoted passages without an ellipsis, and Cardone’s own later Medium version uses different wording in both places (for example, the first sentence and the 'slave to/of the federal government' line differ). ([niskanencenter.org](https://www.niskanencenter.org/worst-article-ubi-ever-published/))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Verified via web search. The CNBC source URL (cnbc.com/2017/09/05/self-made-millionaire-universal-basic-income-is-against-constitution.html) is confirmed as the correct article. Key phrases from the quote — "taker rather than a maker", "victim mentality", "slave of the federal government", "free cash, no questions asked" — are all confirmed present in the original article by Grant Cardone. The Yahoo Finance syndication and Niskanen Center rebuttal both corroborate the attribution. Vote direction "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly reflects the quote's strong anti-UBI stance. Note: the quote mentions "The Constitution of the U.S. talks about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" — this is factually incorrect (it's the Declaration of Independence), but accurately reflects what Cardone wrote. Could not directly fetch the CNBC URL due to access restrictions, but web search results confirmed the content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 3mo ago
replying to Grant Cardone