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Comment by Bill Gross
American investor, co-Founder of PIMCO
If more and more workers are going to be displaced by robots, then they will need money to live on, will they not? And if that strikes you as a form of socialism, I would suggest we get used to it.
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(2016)
2y ago
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The original source URL (Business Insider .de) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched. The primary source - Bill Gross's own May 2016 Janus Investment Outlook titled "Culture Clash" at williamhgross.com - also returns 403. Multiple independent web searches strongly corroborate that this quote is genuinely from Bill Gross's May 2016 Janus "Culture Clash" Investment Outlook, where he advocated for UBI in response to robot displacement. Author attribution (Bill Gross, PIMCO co-founder / then at Janus) checks out. The quote clearly supports UBI ("get used to it" reference to socialism), so the "for" vote on the "Implement a universal basic income" statement aligns correctly. I updated the year to 2016 and replaced the secondary Business Insider aggregator URL with the primary source (Bill Gross's own website), but I could not directly fetch the source page to confirm verbatim wording, so I am marking this ai_unverifiable per protocol.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 5d ago
replying to Bill Gross