Basic Income Quotes

“Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.”
― Philippe van Parijs, Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

“Yet it's precisely because we're richer than ever that it is now within our means to take the next step in the history of progress: to give each and every person the security of basic income. It's what capitalism ought to have been striving for all along. See it as a dividend on progress, made possible by the blood, sweat, and tears of past generations. In the end, only a fraction of our prosperity is due to our own exertions. We, the inhabitants of the Land of Plenty, are rich thanks to the institutions, the knowledge, and the social capital amassed for us by our forebears. This wealth belongs to us all. And a basic income allows all of us to share it.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“The conditional programs inherently use poverty as a threat. That's Cruel. Shouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves?”
― Karl Widerquist

“Die Zeit ist reif für das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World