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• ‟ We'll all remember 2020 as an historic year. And for decades, people will be able to say, remember 2020. Remember when things were really tough. Who did we rely on? I think that could impact a whole generation.

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• ‟ If we assume the best in people, we can radically redesign our democracy and welfare states.

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

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• ‟ A universal basic income means not only that millions of people would receive unconditional cash payments, but also that millions of people would have to cough up thousands more in taxes to fund it. This will make basic income politically a harder sell.

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• ‟ As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

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• ‟ I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

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• ‟ It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life should be about as well.

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• ‟ Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.

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• ‟ Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

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• ‟ The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.

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• ‟ 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 where housing is scarce - a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

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