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Comment by Jesse Rothstein

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Professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley; former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
The only way to pay for UBI is to massively tax those enormously rich people who own the UBI machines.
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Jesse Rothstein, quoted in Washington Post, “Elon Musk’s AI utopia depends on massive government checks,” May 22, 2026.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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AI Verified Rothstein says UBI requires taxing owners of AI machines, supporting taxation of capital as AI displaces labor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Rothstein says UBI requires taxing owners of AI machines, supporting a shift toward capital taxation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Washington Post (22 May 2026) attributes this wording to Jesse Rothstein verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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