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Comment by Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal
There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance.AI Verified source (2025)
3mo ago
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Verified: Fox Business’s December 30, 2025 article reproduces the exact three-sentence wording and attributes it to Elon Musk, saying he wrote it in an August X post; Benzinga’s September 20, 2025 article independently prints the same text. The Fox Business URL you provided is related, but it contains only a shorter 2025 quote and a separate 2024 conference quote, not the full verbatim passage. ([foxbusiness.com](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-calls-himself-maker-slamming-politicians-like-bernie-sanders-they-take.amp))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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Quote attributed to Elon Musk: "There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance." The source_url (foxbusiness.com) returns HTTP 403, so I could not fetch it directly. However, web search located the exact verbatim original: Musk's own X post (x.com/elonmusk/status/1959723029531181380), dated late August 2025, plus multiple secondary sources (Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Basic Income Canada Network) all reproducing it word-for-word. Because the original post dates to Aug 2025 (with Sept 2025 coverage), I corrected the year field from 2026 to 2025. Attribution is solid and the "for" vote on statement 224 ("Implement a universal basic income") is reasonable — Musk advocates income redistribution (he calls for "universal high income," even more generous than UBI). Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source_url blocks automated access; the quote is genuine and accurately attributed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 28d ago
replying to Elon Musk