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Is There a Universal Basic Dividend?
There are two ways of doing it. One is a very sort of gradualist way. Imagine that we were to say to google, to amazon, to any large corporation operating in our country, you are going to have to give a certain amount of shares o to a public equity fund. The dividends accumulate and those that are then divided amongst the population as a universal basic dividend. But imagine the following set up, one share, one member, one vote in corporations. You know, it sounds outrageous, but then so did once upon a time. It was outrageous lof the nineteenth century in britain am because if you do end up with corporations that are owned by the people who
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