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rob74today at 2:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Well, Musk for one is promising not universal basic income, but universal high income. In a country where a lot of people don't even have health insurance. Let's see how that will work out, I'll believe it when I see it...


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alistairSHtoday at 2:26 PM

Does anybody honestly think that guy is gonna willingly relinquish any of his fortune?

Fnoordtoday at 3:28 PM

After the eradication of humanity as we know it, a few survivors can start their own country with a law defining the term high.

I don't believe it when I see it. I call it poppycocks. Because if you do want to argue such, you need to define the path to get there. Without that, it sounds like a pipe dream. Akin to say Leninism.