Thomas Paine, the intellectual architect of the American Revolution, made a logical and impassioned plea for providing everyone with guaranteed income.
Thomas Paine arrived in the colonies in 1774 in the middle of rising tension between the British crown and the New World colonists. The Boston Tea Party had already happened, and the colonists were suffering from the resulting Intolerable Acts imposed to punish and humiliate them. The idea of revolution was circulating, but it was not taken seriously until Thomas Paine published his seminal Common Sense which laid out the arguments for a complete–and violent if necessary–separation from […]
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