Musk: Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

X.com ^ | 4/17/2026 | Elon Musk

[Callahan]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

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KEYWORDS: ai; communism; modernmonetarytheory; moneyprinting; musk; muskworship; redistribution; ubi; uhi; unemployment

[Tell It Right]

Nope. UBI is socialism in disguise.

[Skywise]

Yeahhhhh… no.

[pepsi_junkie]

Interesting that the world’s richest man is an economic illiterate.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m not thrilled about it, but I think this is going to happen.

[House Atreides]

Elon has lots of good ideas but THIS ONE? Not so much!

[wardaddy]

Well intends tar pit

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Universal High Income” = “Universal High Inflation”

[Callahan]

The amount of investment being put into Ai makes no sense until the end goal is replacing—not supplementing—replacing ALL labor. That is what Musk is talking about. Whatever you do today to make money eventually will little to know value because all labor will be performed by intelligent machines. This is what they are aiming for, whether you believe it will happen or not.

[Callahan]

No value that it is. Though it is a clever play on words given the topic.

[so_real]

100% disagree. I have a hard time believing such a smart guy could possibly think that this time around mankind will get socialism "right" and erase the entire history of failed attempts and bury the misery they've caused.

[lee martell]

I don’t like it either (the prospect of UBI), but there won’t be many other alternatives to address the climbing numbers of people effected by AI’s ‘Spreading Blob” effect.
Something’s going to need to already be in place to assist with the material needs of all the newly unemployed and unemployable.

[Track9]

What a way to ruin people and country.

[goodnesswins]

Yes...my hub has been deep digging into what they are planning/predicting with AI....going to be an interesting 10-20 years fer sure...at our age, we will be on the fringes, but will watch the grandchildren....and help if need be. That is, if the world lasts that long....some days I wonder.

[Oneder]

Not no, but HELL no!

[Theoria]

Once a leftist, always a leftist. The technocrats like Musk don’t care about the commons. UBI has been pumped since Thomas Paine.

[spintreebob]

Since Thomas Paine. I think Cain was for equal distribution of Abel’s wealth.

[Wayne07]

Love Musk, but no, terrible idea. Welfare destroys the soul..

[MinorityRepublican]

I’m not thrilled about it, but I think this is going to happen.

It won't end well.

We have already done an experiment on this. We gave welfare to the poor in inner cities here in the U.S.

We'll have to transition to a society that's more religious. Eventually, we'll do that.

[Theoria]

If the R’s and D’s can’t replace the Forgotten man with the foreign man, they will with the Robot or other tech.

Always the plan. There is a shift in the economy that people cannot comprehend. The human aspect of work will be phased out in many sectors. Why do you think tech bros aligned with Trump? The advancements in tech is so fast that many areas of human work will be lessened.

That is point of the billions and billions in spending by companies to tech advancements; eliminate costs and the human edge in work.

We have our government joining forces with powerful groups that want to eliminate the human inefficiency, good luck.