Comment by Rogé Karma

Designed the right way, the policy could provide a much-needed hedge against a future AI dystopia. It wouldn’t prevent workers from losing their jobs to machines, but it could guarantee that they share in at least some of the economic upside of the technology. [...] Instead of a monthly check, every American would be given an account containing a chunk of equity invested in a broad portfolio. The value of that account would compound over time as the market rises. [...] The One Big Beautiful Bill [...] already established a micro-version of universal basic capital in the form of “Trump Accounts” that provide every child born from 2025 to 2028 with a $1,000 brokerage account at birth.