The horrible political idea of government (read—taxpayer) sponsored basic income continues to roll off the tongues of high-profile figures in the tech industry as a solution to alleviate global poverty.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook worth a whopping $61.9 billion, is one of these executives voicing the belief and optimism that if a universal basic income (UBI) was installed in the United States, it would actually work.
Notably, Zuckerberg, in his recent commencement address to the 2017 graduating class of Harvard University, justified a UBI as a means to solve a variety of the world’s issues.“We should have a society […]
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