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Inventor of the World Wide Web
I think a basic income is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I found a contemporaneous repost of the Tech Insider/Business Insider piece containing the exact sentence and attributing it to Tim Berners-Lee, and BIEN independently confirms that in The Economist’s May 2016 podcast he was asked whether he favored a basic income and responded sympathetically; W3C’s 2016 press roundup also lists The Economist interview 'Can the open web survive?' on May 26, 2016. But I could not access the original Tech Insider URL or a primary transcript/audio passage with this exact line, so I can’t securely confirm the wording as verbatim. ([lifeboat.com](https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-internet-supports-basic-income?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable The quote was corrected from the truncated "It is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality" to the full quote "I think a basic income is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality." — confirmed via web search which found this attributed to Tim Berners-Lee in The Economist podcast "Can the Open Web Survive?" (May 27, 2016), where he expressed support for UBI. The year was also updated to 2016. The original source URL (techinsider.io/tim-berners-lee-supports-basic-income-2016-5) returns 403, and BIEN's coverage article also returns 403, so direct page verification is not possible. Vote alignment (for, re: "Implement a universal basic income") is correct given his expressed support. Marking as ai_unverifiable because the source URL is inaccessible, though the attribution and content are well-corroborated by secondary sources. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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