It mentions Y Combinator and Albert Wenger as Silicon Valley supporters of basic income. I suspect that means... 2 or 3 people? The article lists more radical I

It mentions Y Combinator and Albert Wenger as Silicon Valley supporters of basic income. I suspect that means... 2 or 3 people? The article lists more radical Italian economists. It's completely valid to create a simplified model to understand certain social effects, but when you're looking at such a tiny number of people, grouping them into some sort of blob seems more likely to be an attempt to distort than to understand.