1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (Penguin, 1971).
2. This sort of criticism is explored very capably in J. Reiman, As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism (UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
3. Ting Wang, Ling Wang, and Tiffany Chen, “Secrets of Success: Innovation in the Silicon Valley: Business Development and Innovation of Tech Companies,” in Behavior, Economic and Social Computing (BESC), 2014 International Conference on (IEEE, 2014), 1–5,
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4. The resulting distribution might be more like the proposal to provide citizens a “stake” upon reaching adulthood. Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, The Stakeholder Society (Yale University Press, 1999).
5. For more on the mildly paternalistic reasons for not providing lump sums, see Parijs, “Real Freedom for All: What (if Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?” OUP Catalogue, 1997. 10. Sheahen proposes a 2 percent wealth tax, which raises $450 billion (Sheahen, Basic Income Guarantee: Your Right to Economic Security, 92.) We did not help ourselves to revenue from this tax in chapter 2 in anticipation of this point. Piketty also sees an inheritance tax as an important measure to reduce inequality. Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014).