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Founder of ZipCar
Basic income is the long-term answer to the increasing precariousness of ordinary people in a global economy that can shift their jobs to the other side of the world in a heartbeat.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified The quote clearly endorses basic income as "the long-term answer," which implies support for implementing a universal basic income policy. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says "Basic income is the long-term answer," which supports basic income in general, but it does not explicitly say "universal" basic income. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic and appears verbatim in Robin Chase’s article “Everything That Can Become a Platform Will Become a Platform” on the cited WTF Economy/Medium page: “Basic income is the long-term answer to the increasing precariousness of ordinary people in a global economy that can shift their jobs to the other side of the world in a heartbeat.” The page identifies it as written by Robin Chase. One caveat: the article is dated October 28, 2015, so the quoted year is not 2016. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Cannot verify source URL — medium.com is blocked by the network egress proxy. The quote is attributed to Robin Chase (co-founder of Zipcar) and claims she said: "Basic income is the long-term answer to the increasing precariousness of ordinary people in a global economy that can shift their jobs to the other side of the world in a heartbeat." Robin Chase is a known UBI advocate who has spoken publicly about basic income in the context of platform economics and automation (e.g., on the Basic Income Podcast, at the Global Drucker Forum, and in Fortune). The sentiment is consistent with her views. However, I could not find this exact quote attributed to her in any indexed web source, and the source Medium article could not be accessed. Vote alignment is correct: the quote supports UBI and the vote is "for" on "Implement a universal basic income." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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