universal basic income

“I don't actually know what Tim Draper's view is on it, but I think there's no possible way that it won't happen.”

“The basic income, which is the idea of everybody getting enough money to be able to cover basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter I believe is what's necessary to make people free economic actors in the labor market, and I think that's essential for innova…”

“And one of the criticisms that people raise is, well, who will do these sort of dirty jobs? And I think the answer to that is it means that the price that has to get paid for somebody to say clean bathrooms will go up. And that's a good thing because when the …”

“I think the biggest challenge to getting to basic income is purely a intellectual and cultural challenge that has to do with Having constructed a system for over a hundred years or so, or several generations that, you know, has a specific perception of how the…”

“If you have universal basic income, the things you tend to strive for tend to be bigger. That's actually a reason that a lot of the startups coming out of the Nordics are aiming big, which is we don't need to aim small.”

“I do think things like universal basic income and whatnot are going to have to come up more and more in this conversation because well, okay, it's an existential threat to our democracy.”

“And Susan, my wife and I have been long-term advocates for universal basic income. We are funding a universal basic income trial in the city of Hudson in the state of New York. And we've contributed to other universal basic income campaigns and trials.”

“I don't buy UBI, by the way. I think that is fundamentally lacking. You don't? No, humanity requires purpose. If you remove, if you add UBI, you remove purpose. And people say, oh, we're going to fish and we're going to paint. I promise you that is not how hum…”

“I think the problem is that while most people complain about their jobs. It does give them meaning. It does give them meaning to be a valuable part of society and to have earned something that they can then give to their family, to their kids, and so on. And s…”

“I believe that's gonna happen. Again, the big question is, is when is it gonna be? I don't think it's gonna be next five years. It's not going to be, maybe it's going to be next 10 years if you really see a broad adoption of these technologies, more likely may…”

“I think it will have to happen, and I think probably as companies will get more efficient and probably they will need less people working for them. Probably they will get taxed more to make sure that we can distribute universal income to everybody.”