Tech elites tout ‘universal high income.’ Just don’t ask them who’s paying.

Washington Post: “The only way to pay for UBI is to massively tax those enormously rich people who own the UBI machines,” said Jesse Rothstein, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of California at Berkeley who served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. “It’s a nice surprise to hear Elon Musk advocating for that.”

Musk did not respond to a request for comment. OpenAI and Anthropic declined to comment…

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