[api]

Devils advocate: a lot of people I know in the big tech and adjacent VC world are supporters of things like universal basic income because they kind of agree.

Eventually we will have to admit that we have created so much wealth that classical work ethics are no longer humane or beneficial to society. It doesn’t mean people don’t work but it means it must at least partially be divorced from sustenance.

[Planktonne]

> a lot of people I know in the big tech and adjacent VC world are supporters of things like universal basic income

Does their support manifest in any tangible way? It's a popular thing for tech people to talk about, but it doesn't seem to be matched by any effort or associated behaviours.

[api]

I don’t know. Some may have donated to things or to politicians that support such views, but most wealthy people are like most people in general. They often don’t do very much about their personal political views beyond voting and occasionally expressing them. Those who are activists with their money are in the minority.

[gedy]

> a lot of people I know in the big tech and adjacent VC world are supporters of things like universal basic income because they kind of agree.

I think that's just a convenient out for folks who are automating jobs away, and whom also have no qualms about hiring offshore vs people around them.