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Comment by Leonid Bershidsky

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Journalist, Bloomberg View Columnist
There probably isn't much danger that Finns will stop working if they get a basic income. The bigger risk is that the government won't be able to pay for it.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified Verified relevant. Bershidsky highlights the core risk that governments may be unable to pay for UBI, supporting opposition or skepticism toward implementing it. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14d ago
AI Unverifiable The quote is about basic income as a policy, especially concerns about work incentives and government affordability, but it does not make a clear overall position on whether universal basic income should be implemented. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
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AI Verified Verified against. Bershidsky points to fiscal infeasibility as the bigger risk of UBI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14d ago

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AI Verified Verified. GOOD (Dec. 7, 2015) reproduces the exact two-sentence passage and attributes it to Bloomberg’s Leonid Bershidsky. A contemporaneous repost reproduces the Bloomberg text with the same wording and credits Leonid Bershidsky as a Bloomberg View contributor. A Maytree policy brief independently cites the Bloomberg article title, date (Nov. 3, 2015), and the supplied URL. ([good.is](https://www.good.is/articles/finland-might-give-every-citizen-870-a-month)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote verified via web search. The exact text "There probably isn't much danger that Finns will stop working if they get a basic income. The bigger risk is that the government won't be able to pay for it." appears in Leonid Bershidsky's Bloomberg View article from November 2015, titled "Finns May Get Paid for Being Finns." The article was syndicated to Jewish World Review and IOL Business Report. The Bloomberg source URL could not be fetched directly (paywall), but the quote and attribution are confirmed through search results and syndicated copies. Vote alignment: "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" is appropriate — while Bershidsky dismisses the argument that Finns would stop working, his main concern is the fiscal unsustainability of UBI (costing 52.2B EUR/year vs 49.1B EUR projected revenue), making the overall stance skeptical/against. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago
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