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Comment by Mark Zuckerberg
CEO at Facebook
An entrepreneurial culture thrives when it’s easy to try lots of new ideas. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things. There is something wrong with our system when I can make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can’t afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business.
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(2017)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Quote attributed to Mark Zuckerberg from his Harvard 2017 commencement speech, advocating for exploration of universal basic income. The vote ("for" on "Implement a universal basic income") correctly aligns with the quote's content. However, the source_url at news.harvard.edu returns HTTP 403 when fetched (Harvard Gazette blocks WebFetch), so I cannot directly verify the exact wording on the primary source. Multiple secondary sources (CNBC, Slashdot, CBS News, World Economic Forum, basicincome.org) corroborate the key phrases — "We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things" and "something wrong with our system when I can ... make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't ... afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business" — confirming the quote is genuine. The year (2017) is older than 2025/2026; I searched for a more recent Zuckerberg statement on UBI but could not find one where he is For/Against/Abstain on this exact topic, so the original quote remains the best available. Marking as ai_unverifiable strictly because the primary source URL blocks automated fetch, despite strong secondary corroboration.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 3d ago
replying to Mark Zuckerberg