Elon Musk backs 'universal high income' to combat AI job losses
9 points by paulpauper
by jethronethro
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Will billionaires like Musk be willing to pay their fair share of taxes to help support this? Doubt it.
by zzrrt
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Spends a few months trying to claw dimes out of the hands of poor people for being lazy or "frauds", then comes back to say, actually, his newest hype bubble is going to be so successful that everyone will get paid even more than DOGE saved, no questions asked.
by cjbenedikt
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Makes for interesting number juggling. Less income tax from people out of jobs but high universal income? I'm sure Grok has the solution.
by jazz9k
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This will never work.
by GoToRO
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is this billionaires just signaling they are with the poor while in fact just gathering as much resource as they can, from the poor?
by tim-tday
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Paid for by the government. Who gets paid by taxes. Except the only people making money will be the 5 billionaires who own everything.
And those fuckers don’t pay taxes.
Larry page just spent half a billion dollars to not pay taxes then fled the state.
by UncleMeat
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"Backs" would mean that he takes material steps to make this happen. He is the world's richest man. Surely he could be putting billions into lobbying efforts for this.
No. Dude is just obsessed with his sci-fi future and is throwing out shit like this to try to convince people that he's not the most venal kind of capitalist possible.
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