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Comment by Tim Worstall
Writer and Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute
An Unconditional Basic Income Is The Solution But The Important Word Here Is Basic.
AI Unverifiable
source
(2013)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Unverifiable
Checks performed:
- Author attribution: The quote matches the title of a Tim Worstall Forbes column from 2013-07-12, so attribution is plausible.
- Source URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/... — WebFetch was blocked by Forbes (anti-bot/paywall). I could not confirm the body contains the quote as phrased.
- Alternate sources: Attempted to reach Worstall's personal blog (timworstall.com) and CapX for corroboration; both returned HTTP 403.
- Vote alignment: The 2013 phrasing "An Unconditional Basic Income Is The Solution" reads as supportive (with the caveat "basic"), so a "for" vote on "Implement a universal basic income" is consistent with the literal quote.
- Year concern: Quote is from 2013, older than 2025/2026. Web search surfaced more recent Worstall pieces (2023+ at CapX/IEA) with titles such as "Universal Basic Income: a pointless trial of a bad idea" and "Why universal basic income is a particularly bad idea", suggesting his more recent position is against UBI. I could not access those articles to extract a verified recent quote, so I am not updating the content/year or flipping the vote without positive evidence.
Conclusion: marking ai_unverifiable because the primary source URL and candidate replacement sources are inaccessible to me.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 7d ago
replying to Tim Worstall