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Comment by Darian Shirazi

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CEO of Radius
We have a small technological aristocracy and a middle class struggling to catch up with the demands of a more efficient economy. Basic income can bring a baseline and offer freedom to those trapped by our new economy.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I found an exact match only on a secondary YouCongress page, which attributes the quote to Darian Shirazi and cites the FT URL, but that page itself labels the item "AI Unverifiable." The FT URL now resolves to a paywalled article titled 'Silicon Valley v Washington: the new digital divide,' and the accessible page text does not show Darian Shirazi, "Basic income," or the quoted wording, so I could not independently confirm the quote verbatim from a reliable primary source. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Unable to verify source. The source_url points to a Financial Times article (https://next.ft.com/content/a3c3258a-d0b3-11e5-92a1-c5e23ef99c77) which is behind a paywall and blocked from automated access. Web searches for the exact quote text ("technological aristocracy", "bring a baseline") attributed to Darian Shirazi returned no matching results. Author attribution is plausible: Darian Shirazi was indeed CEO of Radius, a B2B data platform, and is a Silicon Valley figure who could reasonably comment on UBI. Vote alignment is correct: the quote clearly supports basic income ("Basic income can bring a baseline and offer freedom"), matching the "for" vote on "Implement a universal basic income". However, without being able to access the FT article or find the quote elsewhere online, I cannot positively confirm the quote text or its attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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