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Comment by Bernd Leukert

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SAP Board Member (German Firm)
It could be a solution - not today, not tomorrow, but in a society which has changed fundamentally by digitization. I try not to think in rigid structures, but to see what is changing in the world and how we might react when things arrive as we expect. We have to protect our society. That's why the idea of a basic income.
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Disputed Disputed: the English passage is a faithful translation/abridgment of a German quote, but reliable sources attribute it to Timotheus Höttges, not Bernd Leukert. A secondary scholarly PDF reproduces the full German text (“Es könnte eine Lösung sein … Ich versuche, nicht in starren Strukturen zu denken … Wir müssen unsere Gesellschaft absichern. Deswegen die Idee des Grundeinkommens”) and cites “Höttges 2016”; its bibliography identifies that source as the ZEIT interview “Der Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Computer wird in Kürze aufgehoben sein.” The supplied ZEIT URL is itself an interview with Timotheus Höttges, and a ZEIT news item separately attributes the core basic-income line to Höttges. Bernd Leukert is documented elsewhere with a different quote (“Ein Grundeinkommen hilft allen”). ([boeckler.de](https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-006600/p_AdZ_dp_Mai_2017.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
Disputed MISATTRIBUTED. This quote is attributed to Bernd Leukert (SAP) but it actually belongs to Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom. Evidence: (1) The source URL itself (zeit.de/2016/01/zukunftsvisionen-timotheus-hoettges-roboter-technik) is an interview with Höttges, not Leukert. (2) The Intereconomics journal (2017) confirms Höttges said UBI "could be a solution – not today, not tomorrow, but in a society that will go through the fundamental technological change of digitisation." Bernd Leukert did separately advocate for basic income in a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung interview, but this specific quote and source URL belong to Höttges. Timotheus Höttges does not yet exist as an author in YouCongress. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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