Exclusive: Progressives skeptical of tech billionaires’ UBI support

Exclusive: Progressives skeptical of tech billionaires’ UBI support

The NewsHouse progressives are looking askance at the recent embrace of universal basic income by tech billionaires like Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Musk has lately posted about the need for a “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government” as “the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.” And Altman has voiced some support for universal basic income proposals or even a “Universal Basic Compute” plan to give Am…