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Comment by Anthony Painter
Director of Policy and Strategy at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts)
If you want to incentivise work at every level of income then Basic Income is simply the best system
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(2016)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Could not directly verify via source URL. Forbes (www.forbes.com) blocks WebFetch with a connection error, and the web archive, RSA blog (thersa.org), BIEN (basicincome.org), and techvshuman.com all return 403.
However, Google search results strongly corroborate the quote: multiple independent sources quote Anthony Painter (Director at the RSA) as saying "If you want to incentivise work at every level of income, then Basic Income is simply the best system" — consistent with his well-documented advocacy for UBI via the RSA's 2015 report "Creative citizen, creative state" and his 2018 TEDxExeter talk.
Vote alignment: the vote "for" on statement "Implement a universal basic income" (statement_id 224) correctly matches the quote's pro-UBI stance.
Relevancy: quote is directly on-topic for the UBI statement.
Year: the quote is from 2016 (>2025 cutoff). Attempted to find a more recent Painter quote on UBI but no 2025/2026 quotes surfaced in search. Leaving year as 2016.
Marking as ai_unverifiable because the primary source URL cannot be fetched, despite indirect confirmation of the quote's authenticity.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 7d ago
replying to Anthony Painter