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Comment by Simon Ghiotto
Economist
Let’s take the position of women in society. Some advocates of the universal allowance claim that it would strengthen it. But providing an income is not emancipation. Emancipation is ensuring that men and women can participate in life in society, and this happens in particular through the world of work. Giving the same income to everyone does not give everyone the same opportunities to choose; it is an illusion, because everyone’s starting point is not the same. Once again, this is a slogan. The universal allowance is about treating the symptom, not the disease.
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(2017)
2y ago
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Checked: (1) Author Simon Ghiotto is a real Belgian economist at Itinera Institute and KU Leuven, co-author (with Marc De Vos) of the 2017 book "Basisinkomen tussen droom en werkelijkheid / L'allocation universelle entre rêve et réalité", known for being critical of UBI — so the quote's thematic content (UBI as "régression sociale", emancipation through work, treating the symptom not the disease) is fully consistent with his documented published positions. (2) The vote "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly aligns with the quote's clearly critical stance. (3) Year 2017 matches the publication date of his book and an October 2017 op-ed; I searched for more recent (2024-2026) quotes from Ghiotto on UBI but found none. (4) I could not independently verify the exact wording because WebFetch is blocked from fetching www.lesoir.be (the primary source) and from web.archive.org, and the peoplesphere.be mirror returned 403. Marking as ai_unverifiable due to inability to access the source URL, though all other indirect signals support authenticity.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 10d ago
replying to Simon Ghiotto