An unconditional basic income is an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. The idea of an unconditional basic income can be traced back to 1797 when Thomas Paine published his pamphlet „Agrarian Justice“. Paine's reasoning follows John Locke's notion of the earth being common to all men. With the proposal of a negative income tax in the 1960s, the idea of an unconditional payment found its way…