#+title: universal basic income
#+roam_alias: "UBI"

Universal basic income is the idea that every adult should receive a lump sum to
raise themselves above the poverty line.

The first person to propose UBI was possibly [[file:20210312165519-thomas_paine.org][Thomas Paine]], and has been
advocated for by [[file:20200607211237-neoliberalism.org][neoliberals]] such as [[file:20210120222224-friedrich_hayek.org][Friedrich Hayek]] and [[file:20210312165716-milton_friedman.org][Milton Friedman]].