Expensive Quote by Rutger Bregman

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of…

— Andrew Yang

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

— Jeremy Rifkin

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

— Azim Premji

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money -…

— Anthea Turner

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as…

— Rutger Bregman

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer…

— Rutger Bregman

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

— Plato

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.

— Barack Obama

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

— Muhammad Yunus

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places…

— Rutger Bregman

I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would remove the…

— Rutger Bregman

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

— Rutger Bregman