Scott Santens on Implement a universal basic income

Scott Santens

Writer & Basic Income advocate

Divided among every adult in the United States, we are looking at a dividend that should be about $1,390 per month here in 2026. Factor in a smaller amount per child — roughly $500 per month — and we are talking about a dividend that would end poverty in the United States.

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Implement a universal basic income

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AI Verified Verified. Source URL (scottsantens.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote's content verbatim as Scott Santens's own writing: a 2026 productivity-dividend of "about $1,390 per month" per adult plus "roughly $500 per month" per child that "would end poverty in the United States" (he notes the single-adult poverty line is ~$1,330/month). Correctly attributed to Scott Santens (writer and prominent Basic Income advocate); year 2026 is current. The quote appears within his UBI-as-productivity-dividend argument; the cited article is one of his own pieces on AI automation and the case for UBI, and the figures are corroborated across his site. The vote "for" on statement #224 ("Implement a universal basic income") aligns perfectly — Santens is one of the best-known advocates for implementing UBI and here argues it would end poverty. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago

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