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Comment by Vance Ginn
Economist, former White House advisor, President of Pelican Institute
Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal dependency.AI Verified source (2026)
2mo ago
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Verified. Source URL (thedailyeconomy.org) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote and its attribution. The article "What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show" by Vance Ginn, PhD (published March 20, 2026) contains the verbatim language: "AI will change work, it will not repeal economics, and the best response is not fear-driven universal dependency," and frames UBI as "one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy" being revived under an AI pretext. Correctly attributed to Vance Ginn (economist, former White House OMB advisor, associated with the Pelican Institute/Texas Public Policy Foundation); year 2026 is current. The vote "against" on statement #224 ("Implement a universal basic income") aligns precisely — Ginn explicitly argues against UBI, calling it a bad idea that fosters "universal dependency" and noting the experimental evidence shows employment declines rather than a jobs renaissance.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 9d ago
replying to Vance Ginn