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Jan Pieter Kuiper (29 May 1922,
Norg Norg is a village in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Noordenveld, Drenthe. It used to be an independent municipality until 1998. Norg is home to two windmills. History Norg is an ''esdorp'' which developed i ...
– 13 September 1985,
Haarzuilens Haarzuilens is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and lies about 12 km west from the city centre of Utrecht. It was a separate municipality until 1954, when it was joined to the municipalit ...
) was a professor of
social medicine The field of social medicine seeks to implement social care through # understanding how social and economic conditions impact health, disease and the practice of medicine and # fostering conditions in which this understanding can lead to a health ...
at the Protestant
Free University of Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...
. He worked from 1948 to 1958 as a mission doctor on Sumba, Indonesia, for the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1968 he investigated the level of satisfaction at social medicine workers. Some years before that he promoted on the subject company doctors and working humans. He became professor in 1972. In 1975, Kuiper played a major role in the promotion of the idea of
unconditional basic income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of an ...
in the Netherlands, after a conference where he gave a passionate and controversial speech. Later on he gave a series of lecture on the need to ‘disconnect productive labour and income’.KUIPER, J.P. (1976), ‘Arbeid en inkomen : twee plichten en twee rechten’, Sociaal Maandblad Arbeid, 501-512 His ideas influenced Christian-leftists and the ecologist movement.


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1922 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Dutch physicians People from Noordenveld University of Groningen alumni University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Universal basic income activists {{Netherlands-bio-stub