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Why Silicon Valley Pushes the UBI Narrative
- tppiotrowski 7y agoAverage earnings per employee at the big tech firms is around $400K iirc. Most tech companies barely need to hire employees to scale. WhatsApp is another extreme example of ~50 employees servicing 500 million customers.
- domnomnom 7y agoBecause virtue signaling + "we're so great we'll beat humans"
- 0_gravitas 7y agoah yes, those virtue signalers always calling for UBI, just like Nixon, the worst of them all!
- russellbeattie 7y agoNixon was so complicated... A unrepentant sociopath that would pretty much do anything for power, yet he created the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Title IX, Consumer Product Safety and OSHA. He also signed SALT and AMB, got rid of the draft, initiated lowering the voting age to 18, ended the Vietnam war (well, after illegally helping prolong it to get elected), took the U.S. off the gold standard, opened relations to China, and took on organized crime. In addition, he also pushed the idea if a negative income tax, which was basically UBI. In today's world, he can be considered the most productive "Democratic" president after FDR. Too bad he was legitimately nuts.