The concept of a guaranteed basic income might seem novel or neoteric, but it dates back to 1795, when Thomas Paine suggested a “national fund” should pay every adult a “ground rent” of £10 a year until the age of 50. Earth is “the common property of the human race”, he argued, so everyone has been collectively dispossessed by “the introduction of the system of landed property” and was entitled to compensation
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