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They said we were lying. They called us Hitler..,
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‘There’s no police, I’m sovereign!’ Israeli settler featured on the cover of Italian magazine L’Espresso filmed harassing tourists in southern Hebron
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🚨FORGET UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME.. WHAT’S COMING IS UNIVERSAL HIGH INCOME.. AND THE ECONOMICS ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE..
Here’s the part nobody is explaining properly..
Inflation happens when too much money chases too few goods.. That’s the textbook rule.. Print a trillion dollars and the amount of bread stays the same.. Bread gets expensive..
But what happens when AI and robots make the bread..
Not some of it.. Nearly all of it.. At near-zero cost.. Faster than humans ever could..
The supply of goods and services becomes so massive that even if the government sends everyone a fat check every month.. The robots are producing stuff even faster than the money is being printed..
More stuff than money means prices stay flat.. Or they actually go down..
That’s the deflationary offset.. And it breaks every economic model built in the last 200 years..
Think about what this means..
Right now you earn money by trading your time.. Your labor.. Your body.. That’s how it’s worked since the beginning of civilization..
But if robots do all the labor.. And they don’t eat.. Don’t sleep.. Don’t buy houses.. Don’t consume the things they produce..
Then somebody has to give humans the money to buy what the robots are making.. Otherwise demand collapses.. The economy dies.. Not because we ran out of stuff.. But because nobody could afford to buy it..
The government becomes the distributor of the robot dividend..
Not charity.. Not welfare.. A mathematical necessity..
But here’s where the skeptics have a point..
AI can write infinite code.. But it can’t create infinite land.. Or lithium.. Or fresh water..
If everyone gets a high income check and tries to buy a house in Malibu.. Those prices explode.. Because beachfront property is fixed.. No robot can manufacture more coastline..
If everyone spends their checks immediately on limited physical goods.. The speed of money moving through the economy could outrun the robots’ ability to extract raw materials..
And if high income is guaranteed.. Who takes the jobs robots can’t do yet.. Complex surgery.. Specialized plumbing in old buildings.. High-level diplomacy.. Those service costs could skyrocket..
So the real answer isn’t as simple as “robots make everything cheap”..
The real answer is.. AI creates a post-scarcity economy for digital and manufactured goods.. But physical scarcity still exists..
The future isn’t expensive bread.. It’s expensive land..
The thing that will separate the rich from everyone else won’t be income anymore..
It will be what you bought before the robots arrived.


Elon Musk@elonmusk
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
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@TomSteyer California struggles because of corruption, illegals, theft and frauds like you.
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