# > But the reality is most people don’t want just a universal basic income.

Source, please.

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> _But the reality is most people don’t want just a universal basic income._

Source, please.

Certainly, I agree that SV is biased by extremes of wealth and privilege, and
that their ‘solutions’ often don’t work outside of the context of rich
white/asian males living in California and working in tech. However, a stopped
clock is right twice a day: regardless of the reasoning used by one group of
supporters, UBI is desirable to a number of very different groups for a
variety of different reasons — not least by the precise opposite of SV,
current minimum wage (or less) earners, many of whom would very much like a
modicum of flexibility without the perverse incentive structures provided by
current safety net systems.

The suggestion that people would reject UBI as charity is a delusion of people
who understand neither UBI or actual want. After all, by definition, with UBI
*everyone* would get the same income. This is not a matter of SV folks giving
money to the poor; instead, this is a matter of everyone from billionaires to
the homeless getting the same living wage.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [March 17,
2016](https://medium.com/p/2f587486478b).

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don-t-want-just-a-universal-basic-income-2f587486478b)

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