Basic Income is a “Bipartisan Idea’, Says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Basic Income is a “Bipartisan Idea’, Says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a trip to Homer, Alaska this weekend to do characteristically Alaska things, like catching fish, cutting fish, watching other people catch fish, oh, and thinking hard about the concept of basic income.

Zuckerberg visited Homer as part of his personal challenge to visit every state in America in 2017. While there, he took some time out of fishing to write a blog post about Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, a state-sponsored form of basic income that redistributes profits from the state’s natural resources to its residents once a year, usually handing them around $1,000 […]

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