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Musk’s ‘universal high income’ serves tech oligarchs more than workers

Elon Musk's proposal to give government payouts to people who lose their jobs to AI is a bad idea that would take away individual accountability and initiative, and offload the negative externalities of automation onto the government.

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Musk’s ‘universal high income’ serves tech oligarchs more than workersElon Musk's proposal to give government payouts to people who lose their jobs to AI is a bad idea that would take away individual accountability and initiative, and offload the negative externalities of automation onto the government.
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