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Yanis Varoufakis – My proposal is a Universal Basic Dividend

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Paying for UBI should not come from taxation. If capital is socially produced why are the returns to capital privatized? My proposal is what we call a universal basic dividend. A percentage of all shares should go into a public equity trust like a wealth fund for society. – Yanis Varoufakis Full Big Think Talk: ...

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Paying for UBI should not come from taxation. If capital is socially produced why are the returns to capital privatized? My proposal is what we call a universal basic dividend. A percentage of all shares should go into a public equity trust like a wealth fund for society. – Yanis Varoufakis



Full Big Think Talk: https://youtu.be/O8B4U7o9kvg



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Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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