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Comment by Dmytri Kleiner
Venture Communist. Miscommunications Technologist. Telekommunisten Polemicist. ThoughtWorks Analyst.
UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capacity planning. Our political demands should mandate sufficient housing, healthcare, education, childcare and all basic human necessities for all. Rather than a basic income, we need to demand and fight for a basic outcome — for the right to life and justice, not just the right to spend.
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Quote by Dmytri Kleiner from his 2016 Furtherfield article "Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer." The original source_url path (/features/articles/universal-basic-income-neoliberal-plot-make-you-poorer) returned HTTP 403 via WebFetch, so I updated it to the current canonical URL (https://www.furtherfield.org/universal-basic-income-is-a-neoliberal-plot-to-make-you-poorer/), which also returned 403 to WebFetch, as did mirrors on networkcultures.org (PDF) and neweconomics.opendemocracy.net. WebSearch results independently confirm the exact phrasing ("UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit"; "we need to demand and fight for a basic outcome — for the right to life and justice, not just the right to spend") is attributed to Kleiner in this article, and Kleiner's position is clearly against UBI — so the "against" vote on statement 224 ("Implement a universal basic income") is correctly aligned. However, since WebFetch is blocked on all candidate URLs, I cannot directly verify the page content; marking as ai_unverifiable per instructions. No recent (2025/2026) Kleiner quote on UBI was found in search.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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