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Comment by Daniel Zamora

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Sociologist. Université Libre de Bruxelles Institut de sociologie
The popularity of universal basic income is in reality a triumph of the neoliberal ideology, an ideology that refuses, in any social policy, to put inequalities at the center of our democracies. Basically, it is an illusory fight against poverty without really fighting against inequalities
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed The cited marx.be URL currently returns 404. I did find Daniel Zamora making closely related arguments: in a 2016 Le Monde diplomatique piece he contrasts postwar equality-focused social policy with later anti-poverty policy, and in a reliable 2017 article he says basic income’s growing popularity accompanied neoliberal ideas and that such strategies can address poverty without tackling inequality. But I could not find the supplied English text verbatim, nor as a single faithful translation attributed to him. It appears to be a paraphrase/combination of his views rather than an authentic direct quote. ([]()) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL http://www.marx.be/fr/content/que-faire-de-lallocation-universelle returns HTTP 403 and blocks WebFetch, so I cannot directly verify the quoted text on the primary source. Tried fetching Jacobin author page, The Nation article, and danielzamoravargas.com/media — all also returned 403. Web search results strongly corroborate that Daniel Zamora (sociologist, Université Libre de Bruxelles) has consistently argued UBI is a "triumph of neoliberal ideology" and fights poverty without addressing inequality (e.g., his book with Anton Jäger "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income"), and the vote direction ("against" statement #224 "Implement a universal basic income") aligns with the quote's clear anti-UBI stance. However, since the specific source URL is inaccessible to me, I cannot positively confirm the exact wording at that source, so marking ai_unverifiable per instructions. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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