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Basic Income

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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast More or Less Top Founders

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Compensating displaced workers via UBI will just make them sadder
“As I've shot my mouth off a lot online, the problem is not basic income. The problem is meaning, right? You can't just, like, pay people and make them happy. They'll just be sadder.”
Sam Lessin Apr 24, 2026 ▶ 9:23 What Tim Cook’s “Executive Chairman” Move Really Means | Musk vs OpenAI, xAI and Cursor Rumors
TOP FOUNDERS What-if
Santens: A $1,000 UBI from 1971 indexed to GDP per capita would be $2,300 today
“If we had introduced a thousand dollar a month basic income, no under Nixon in the 71, then right now that would be close to, you know, I think it would be like 2300 dollars a month, somewhere around there right now. That was index GDP per capita.”
Scott Santens May 20, 2020 ▶ 35:43 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
TOP FOUNDERS Opinion
Santens: Replacing entire welfare state with $1,500 UBI is not politically saleable
“I don't think that that would pass. I think that that's appeals to a very specific segment, and I don't think that that would be politically saleable.”
Scott Santens May 20, 2020 ▶ 53:12 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
Y COMBINATOR Opinion
Zaremba: Universal basic income is the only viable path as automation grows
“So, I believe that we'll have to offer to people a basic income. I super strongly believe that actually that's the only way.”
Wojciech Zaremba May 17, 2017 ▶ 52:06 An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator

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