The article elaborates on the way the late André Gorz sees basic income as fundamentally unconditional and universal. It is argued that basic income should also be grasped as a form of primary revenue which recognizes the ever-increasing divorce between value (production for the market based on the primacy of exchange value) and wealth (production for collective enjoyment based on the primacy of use-values). In particular, attention is paid to the anti-productivist character of basic income, which is to say its reliance on the principles of political ecology as André Gorz developed it.
