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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. AI Unverifiable source
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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 · 4d ago
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