Tim Draper on Implement a universal basic income

Tim Draper

Billionaire Venture Capitalist

Giving everyone $15,000 would put everyone on the same level. They could do with it whatever they wanted, but having the financial security of some basic money to live on, would give them the opportunity to work on what they want. Work is everything,

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Disputed Business Insider’s February 23, 2016 article attributes a similar statement to Tim Draper, but not the submitted wording verbatim: the article inserts a paraphrase tag, includes the extra word "people," and separately quotes "Work is everything," rather than presenting one continuous quote. ([businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capitalist-tim-draper-wants-to-give-everyone-15000-2016-2)) Startup Grind’s contemporaneous recap also summarizes the proposal differently (an allowance contingent on work), so the exact submitted text is not reliably supported by the cited source or another strong source. ([startupgrind.com](https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/anyone-but-bernie-sanders-for-president-poses-tim-draper-of-dfj-ventures/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

AI Unverifiable Checks performed: - Author attribution: The quote is consistent with Tim Draper's documented historical stance on UBI around 2016 (he is listed among UBI advocates on Wikipedia and in WEF coverage). - Vote alignment: The vote "for" on statement 224 ("Implement a universal basic income") correctly matches the quote's supportive content. - Source URL verification: UNABLE to fetch the Business Insider source (www.businessinsider.com is blocked by WebFetch). Web.archive.org is also blocked by WebFetch. Web search did not surface another independent source with the exact verbatim quote. - Year (2016): Per the task, older quotes should ideally be replaced. I searched for a more recent (2024-2026) Tim Draper quote clearly supporting UBI, but recent reporting shows his position has become more nuanced ("I'm not fully convinced UBI is the solution" and a preference for crypto-based Universal Minimum Income), so I couldn't identify a clean replacement that is unambiguously "for" UBI. Conclusion: Marking ai_unverifiable because the primary source cannot be accessed by the AI and no alternative verifiable source was found. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago

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