Explore the 'Universal Basic Income trap' and its potential for economic collapse in the age of AI. This video challenges Elon Musk's Universal High Income proposals, arguing that printing trillions of dollars could lead to hyperinflation and devalue currency. Is this a realistic solution or a dangerous fairy tale?
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I'd like to move on to the Universal Basic Income trap. Elon Musk has openly discussed Universal High Income as a solution for the AI driven unemployment. Do you see this as realistic or dangerous or something in between? It will it will end the value of the currency. As I I think your audience and my audience already know, you can do the math on this. It would add if you take 100 million Americans, let's say, not quite a third and and you give them, what, $100,000 a year in income, right? Uh, or no, let's say $10,000 a month I think is is what I was asking for. So $120,000 a year. That's, I think, 12 trillion a year in additional currency, because, you know, 100 million people times $120,000, I think that's 12 trillion. Well, that's not going to work, you know, you you you start printing basically a trillion dollars a month, you know, added to the existing almost 40 trillion, it it's it's going to collapse at that point. And even if you give people universal high income, they're not going to be able to afford the goods and services they need to live ...
