Robert Reich on Implement a universal basic income

Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor

There’s no shortage of ideas for how AI’s productivity gains might be redistributed. Those gains could be redistributed through wealth taxes financing childcare, elder care, and healthcare. Or they could be redistributed via a sovereign wealth fund owning half of all AI shares of stock, that distributes yearly dividends to every citizen. Or a Universal Basic Income financed by high taxes on the profits of America’s biggest corporations.

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Robert Reich, quoted in “Basic Income is proposed by several AI leaders,” Basic Income Earth Network, July 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

And AI will destroy millions of jobs and decimate the middle class.

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AI will create a permanent underclass

If the five-day workweek with five days of pay shrinks to four days with four days of pay, and then to three, and to two, and perhaps one, AI will supplant most people’s work and drive down our take-home pay.

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