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Comment by Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paying people not to work will only increase inequality and rancor. [...] If universal basic income is aimed to improve the objective conditions of the average person in 2050, it has a fair chance of succeeding. But if it is aimed to make people subjectively more satisfied with their lot in order to prevent social discontent, it is likely to fail.
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Verified via web search. The quote is from Yuval Noah Harari's Bloomberg Opinion article "Universal Basic Income Is Neither Universal Nor Basic" (June 4, 2017). The attribution is correct — Harari is indeed a historian/professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The quote text matches search results confirming the article's content. Bloomberg.com was blocked for direct fetch, but multiple search results confirm the article exists at the given URL and contains this content. Updated source_url from /view/ to /opinion/ path to match canonical Bloomberg URL. Vote "abstain" on "Implement a universal basic income" is defensible: while Harari's tone is predominantly skeptical ("paying people not to work will only increase inequality and rancor"), he offers conditional support ("if aimed to improve objective conditions... has a fair chance of succeeding"), making the overall stance nuanced enough for abstain.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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replying to Yuval Noah Harari