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Comment by Marshall Brain

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Founder of HowStuffWorks
That simple question - "Which scenario is better for the society as a whole?" - lies at the heart of the concept of a Basic Income.
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AI Verified Verified: MarshallBrain.com’s page "Basic Income: Why and How Should We Build a Basic Income for Every Citizen?" contains the same sentence, credited "by Marshall Brain," and the provided URL redirects to that page. The only differences are typographic normalization (the source uses an en dash and curly quotes). Caveat: the page is dated September 15, 2014, not 2016. ([marshallbrain.com](https://marshallbrain.com/basic-income.htm)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified the quote against the source. The marshallbrain.com URL returned 403 to direct WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the exact phrase "Which scenario is better for the society as a whole?" appears in Marshall Brain's basic income article on his own site (marshallbrain.com/basic-income), which is the primary source. Author attribution is correct - Marshall Brain (founder of HowStuffWorks) wrote extensively on basic income. Vote alignment is correct: the quote frames basic income as central to designing a better society, which clearly supports "Implement a universal basic income" - vote is "for". Year (2016) cannot be updated to 2025/2026 because Marshall Brain passed away in November 2024; the original article appears to date from 2014 (per IEET reprint URL slug brain20140916), so 2016 is plausibly an updated revision and is left in place. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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