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Universal high income could replace employment-based income
Universal high income could replace employment-based income
Musk envisions a future of universal high income in which government can directly provide money while rapidly expanding production prevents conventional inflation pressures.
- Speaker
- Elon Musk
- Topic
- Future Economy
- Source timestamp
- 32:45
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