universal basic income

“The notion of some sort of flatlined or even flatlined and inflation adjusted basic income level for a large number of people will inevitably result in kind of what we're trying to prevent, which is, you know, some sort of decay, societal decay.”

“If you all of a sudden let people opt out of it, then it's going to be a very it's what they're not going to realize is by the time they get old enough where they will want to have some kind of purpose. It'll be too late because then activating yourself in you…”

“What you do is you kick out the bottom rungs of the ladder of economic success when you basically pay able-bodied people not to work. I mean, they need those entry-level jobs that may not pay much better than the UBI are an important stepping stone to where th…”

“Our results in that come out very soon. I just, it was a five-year study that wrapped up or started five years ago.”

“So it's great to kind of confirm at least my intuition, which is that UBI is a wonderful idea that I think doesn't really understand how humans are both motivated and wired.”

“Where I disagree with my friends on the right is I just don't think that's what's going to happen. I mean, I could be wrong, but I just don't think that's what's happening. It hasn't happened yet. I don't think that's what's going to happen.”