Sorry, Bill Gates Doesn’t Think We Can Have Universal Basic Income

The U.S. “isn’t rich enough.”

Bill Gates—inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist—is not the kind of person whom one would accuse of having a lack of imagination.

But the one thing he can’t imagine is Universal Basic Income for all Americans.Yesterday, Gates did a Reddit AMA in which he wrote “Even the US isn’t rich enough to allow people not to work.” Although that day might someday come, until then we should focus our resources on “helping older people, helping kids with special needs, having more adults helping in education.”That’s not actually a bad start, Mr. Gates. I’d love for our country […]

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