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Economist and harpichordist. Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio".
They call it the basic income of all citizens (“reddito di cittadinanza”), but here in Italy we will call it the basic income of the land (“reddito della gleba”, in reference to feudal serfs, or “servi della gleba”, who were linked to the land). We would save characters, and we will be closer to the essence of the reasoning. As much as serfdom (“servitu’ della gleba”) linked the serfs to the land, the basic income of the land is to link the new serfs to precarious employment
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified The quote directly discusses a 'basic income of all citizens' and argues against it, saying it would bind people to precarious work. That is a clear position on implementing universal basic income as a whole. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified The quote is clearly hostile to the policy, mocking it as a "basic income of the land" and saying it would "link the new serfs to precarious employment," which indicates opposition. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The provided Blogspot.es URL redirects to the canonical Goofynomics post "Il reddito della gleba," dated June 4, 2015 and published by Alberto Bagnai. In that post Bagnai writes, in Italian, "Lo chiamano reddito di cittadinanza ... reddito della gleba" and later "serve a legare i nuovi coloni al precariato," which matches the substance of the English quote as a faithful translation, though the English version adds explanatory glosses not present word-for-word in the original. ([goofynomics.blogspot.com.es](https://goofynomics.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/il-reddito-della-gleba.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (goofynomics.blogspot.com) consistently returns HTTP 403 blocking AI access. I tried the .com, .com.es subdomains, and the Wayback Machine — all blocked. Web search snippets confirm the URL exists as a 2015 Bagnai blog post titled "Il reddito della gleba" on Goofynomics, and confirm the gist of the argument (calling reddito di cittadinanza "reddito della gleba" to compare modern UBI recipients to feudal serfs/servi della gleba bound to the land). Author attribution (Alberto Bagnai, economist/blogger at Goofynomics) checks out via multiple independent search results. The "against" vote on the "Implement a universal basic income" statement aligns with the quote's critical framing. However, I could not directly fetch the source page to verify the exact wording of this English-translation excerpt, so marking ai_unverifiable rather than verified. Year is 2015 (matches blog post date); searched for more recent 2025/2026 Bagnai statements on UBI but did not find a comparable quote — note that Italy's reddito di cittadinanza was abolished in Jan 2024, so the 2015 critique remains his canonical published position. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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