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Comment by Coral Martínes Erades

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Economist. Complutense University of Madrid.
La RBU es un proyecto de la derecha ideológica ultraliberal. La defendió hace más de cincuenta años Milton Friedman, el economista neoliberal cofundador de la sociedad Mont Pelerin. Está experimentando con ella la coalición de centro derecha que gobierna en Finlandia, una especie de PP y C’s bálticos. La RBU más avanzada y en funcionamiento es la que se está aplicando en Alaska, gobernada por republicanos del ala más extrema como Sarah Pallin, la del “tea party”. La ha defendido más recientemente Jamie Dillon, el CEO de J.P. Morgan, en la última reunión de Davos, justificándola como respuesta necesaria a la robotización. Con la excusa de los robots, tratan de sustituir las prestaciones del Estado del Bienestar por rentas monetarias que se puedan gastar en el “libre mercado”.
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Disputed The elDiario.es source does contain this passage verbatim, but it is credited to two individual authors — “Coral Martínez Erades y Juanca Martínez Coll” — on 2017-11-11, not to Coral Martínes Erades alone. The stored author is therefore misattributed as a single person, the surname is misspelled (“Martínes” vs. “Martínez”), and the stored date 2016 is wrong. Because the source has multiple individual authors, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The passage does appear verbatim in the elDiario.es article at the provided URL (which redirects to the current article page). However, the article is credited to "Coral Martínez Erades y Juanca Martínez Coll," not to Coral alone, and it is dated 11 November 2017, not 2016. So the quote is real, but the supplied attribution/year are inaccurate. ([eldiario.es](https://www.eldiario.es/zonacritica/Suenan-robots-Renta-Basica-Universal_6_706989297.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Unable to verify the source URL. The link http://www.eldiario.es/zonacritica/Suenan-robots-Renta-Basica-Universal_6_706989297.html and its likely current version at https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona-critica/suenan-robots-renta-basica-universal_129_3071974.html both return HTTP 403 when fetched, as does the archive.org mirror and elsaltodiario.com's author page. I confirmed via web search that Coral Martínez Erades is a real author who writes on these topics, and the article title "¿Sueñan los robots con la Renta Básica Universal?" appears on eldiario.es's Zona Crítica (the URL pattern and section match). The vote alignment is correct: the quote clearly argues against universal basic income (characterizing it as an ultraliberal project intended to dismantle the welfare state), matching the "against" vote on the "Implement a universal basic income" statement. However, because the original source page and its archives are inaccessible to me, I cannot positively confirm the exact text appears there, so marking as ai_unverifiable rather than verified. Note: the quote is from 2016; a more recent quote from the same author would be preferable, but searches did not surface one. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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