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Comment by Catherine Thorbecke
Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech; previously at CNN and ABC News
Laying off millions of people while investing billions is more a strategy for political unrest than sustainable revenue growth. [...] Offering citizens a dividend is one idea for helping blunt the transition.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
Verified: the Taipei Times page at the provided URL is a May 19, 2026 article titled "An AI jobpocalypse will cost more than a dividend," credited "By Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg Opinion." It contains the first sentence verbatim at line 51 and the second verbatim at line 53; the [...] is a valid omission of intervening text. ([taipeitimes.com](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2026/05/19/2003857566))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (taipeitimes.com) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden and blocks automated access. Via web search I confirmed the underlying article genuinely exists and is correctly attributed: this Taipei Times piece (2026/05/19) is a republication of Catherine Thorbecke's Bloomberg Opinion column "An AI Jobpocalypse Will Cost More Than a Dividend" (2026-05-14), which discusses AI-driven layoffs, political backlash, and the idea of a citizens' dividend to blunt the transition — matching the quote's themes. The primary Bloomberg URL and a Bloomberg Tax republication are also 403, and the exact verbatim phrasing did not surface in search snippets, so I could not positively confirm the quote text or full context. Author attribution (Thorbecke, Bloomberg Asia tech columnist) and year (2026) are correct, and the "for" vote on statement 453 ("A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits") is plausibly aligned with the quoted favorable framing of a dividend. Marking ai_unverifiable because the source blocks access.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Catherine Thorbecke