Top Silicon Valley tech exec on cash handouts: Let’s eliminate poverty for all Americans

Top Silicon Valley tech exec on cash handouts: Let's eliminate poverty for all Americans

It’s de rigeur for the many of the richest of the rich to tout the benefits of giving cash handouts to all American citizens, in part as a way to end poverty. The idea, called universal basic income (UBI), is for every individual to be paid a regular sum of money regardless of employment status.

One of the tech elite who has an interest in universal basic income is self-made multimillionaire and Y Combinator President Sam Altman . "Eliminating poverty is such a moral imperative and something that I believe in so strongly," Altman tells CNBC Make It .

"There’s so […]

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