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Re:Tech giants Elon Musk, Sam Altman push universal basic in... by skybrian on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:52PM (#14435586)
If you're rich and pushing UBI, that probably means that you'd be willing to pay significantly higher taxes, or why would you do it?

That doesn't mean you have to be a sucker and do it unilaterally when nobody has to do it. It's a collective action problem.

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Re:Tech giants Elon Musk, Sam Altman push universal basic in... by Overtonwindow on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:14PM (#14435669)
You would do it because you assume and have a reasonable ability to believe in the assumption, that the money for such a program won't come from your pocket.
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