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Comment by Gotz Werner
Founder of Dm-drogerie Markt (Germany's Walgreens)
There has always been someone who put trust in me and said: Mr. Werner, show us what you can do. Exactly the same way the basic income says: We grant you so that you can live humbly but with dignity, and now you can show us what you can do.AI Unverifiable source (2012)
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I found a 2022 Scott Santens article that reproduces a longer version of this passage and attributes it to a 2012 Götz Werner interview, but I could not locate a reliable primary source or transcript with the exact wording. ([scottsantens.com](https://www.scottsantens.com/the-toothpaste-argument-for-universal-basic-income-ubi-gotz-werner/)) The supplied Boiling Frogs URL now returns 404, and YouCongress repeats the shorter quote while explicitly marking the source as “Unverified,” so I can’t confirm the quote as verbatim. ([]())
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Source URL boilingfrogs.info returns 403/blocks WebFetch (also tried stanislasjourdan.fr mirror with same article date - 403). Web search returns strong confirmation: Götz Werner did make this argument about basic income, saying 'Mr. Werner, show us what you can do' and 'we grant to you, that you can live humbly but with dignity'. Author correctly identified as Götz Werner (founder of dm-drogerie Markt, well-known German UBI advocate, passed away 2022). Vote 'for' on 'Implement a universal basic income' aligns clearly. Cannot directly verify via WebFetch so marking ai_unverifiable.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2mo ago
replying to Gotz Werner