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Comment by Stuart White
Political Scientist.University of Oxford.
To claim a share of such wealth without being willing to make this contribution is unfairly to free-ride on those citizens who do make the required contribution. If this unfairness is to be avoided, receipt of an equal share of the relevant types of external wealth must be made conditional on a demonstrated willingness to make the required contribution. And it is therefore inappropriate to redistribute such wealth in the form of an UBI precisely because doing so would disconnect enjoyment of this wealth from making the relevant contribution, and would thus permit free-riding. This is, of course, the exploitation objection to UBI.AI Unverifiable source (1997)
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The cited DOI page does confirm that Stuart White published “Liberal Equality, Exploitation, and the Case for an Unconditional Basic Income” in Political Studies 45(2) in June 1997. Reliable secondary sources also confirm that White 1997 argues the exploitation/reciprocity objection to UBI, but the accessible wording they provide is different from the passage you supplied, and I could not locate this exact paragraph verbatim at the source URL or in another reliable accessible source. So I cannot confirm the quote as exact and verbatim. ([journals.sagepub.com](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.00083))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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The source URL (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.00083) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching. The alternative Wiley Online Library URL (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.00083) is also blocked, and the article is paywalled, so I could not directly confirm the exact wording.
What I could verify via web search:
- The paper is real: Stuart White (1997), "Liberal Equality, Exploitation, and the Case for an Unconditional Basic Income," Political Studies 45(2): 312-326, DOI 10.1111/1467-9248.00083.
- The author attribution is correct: Stuart White is Associate Professor in political theory at the University of Oxford and the paper is well-known for articulating the "exploitation objection" to UBI.
- The quote's content and terminology ("exploitation objection to UBI", "free-ride", "external wealth", "reciprocity contribution") match the documented argument of this paper, in which White argues Van Parijs has failed to articulate a convincing response to the exploitation objection.
- The vote "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" is consistent with the skeptical-of-UBI stance White takes in this 1997 article.
The quote is from 1997 (older than 2025/26). I searched for a more recent Stuart White quote with a clear For/Against/Abstain stance on UBI, but could not find a clearly verifiable, attributable recent statement (his 2006 paper "Reconsidering the Exploitation Objection to Basic Income" actually softens his earlier critique, so his current position is more nuanced than a simple against). I therefore did not replace the quote. Marking ai_unverifiable rather than verified because I could not directly confirm the exact quoted text against the source.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2mo ago
replying to Stuart White