Comment by Vincent Cheynet

Journalist. Degrowth activist. Editor-in-chief de La Décroissance magazine.
This puerile regression takes multiple forms : for example the desire of receiving without never contributing to the collective effort – the latter being typical of fetuses and infants. This proposition seems of course at first very nice for whoever remembers the principles of justice. Beyond all the criticism of the unconditional income […], its main flaw seem to us within this framework. This is why, unlike what happened with obvious and common sense proposals – such as the rejection of multi-property or of rents –, this idea gethered immediate support in our society which is pervaded by a liberal ideology, starting from the support of certain ecologist activists that are presenting themselves as the most radical anticapitalists AI Verified source (2016)
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AI Verified Verified via independent web search corroboration. The source URL (decroissance.org) returned 403 to WebFetch, but multiple web searches independently confirmed the quote's key phrases — "puerile regression", "desire of receiving without ever participating in collective effort", and the "fetus and infant" analogy — appear in Vincent Cheynet's article "La rente inconditionnelle" at decroissance.org. Author attribution is correct: Cheynet is editor-in-chief of La Décroissance magazine and a well-known degrowth critic of UBI. The vote "against" correctly aligns with the statement "Implement a universal basic income" — the quote is an unambiguous critique of UBI. Year 2016 predates 2025, but this essay is Cheynet's canonical statement on UBI and no substantively more recent published quote was found; his position has remained consistent. Source URL is the primary source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 6d ago
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