David Sacks on Implement a universal basic income

David Sacks

White House AI and crypto czar

The Left envisions a post-economic order in which people stop working and instead receive government benefits. In other words, everyone on welfare. This is their fantasy; it's not going to happen.

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Implement a universal basic income

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AI Verified The quote clearly criticizes the idea of everyone receiving government benefits and labels it an unrealistic left-wing fantasy. That strongly implies opposition to implementing a universal basic income, which would provide income universally through government payments. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote attacks a "post-economic order" where "people stop working and instead receive government benefits" and calls that "their fantasy," but it does not explicitly address universal basic income itself. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verified: Business Insider’s June 6, 2025 article says David Sacks wrote this on X and reproduces the wording exactly; the supplied Slashdot page repeats the same wording and attribution. The passage you provided is a verbatim excerpt from a longer Sacks statement beginning with “The future of AI has become a Rorschach test...”. ([businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-czar-david-sacks-universal-basic-income-ai-jobs-2025-6)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Verified. Source URL (slashdot.org) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim: "The Left envisions a post-economic order in which people stop working and instead receive government benefits. In other words, everyone on welfare. This is their fantasy; it's not going to happen." Correctly attributed to David Sacks (White House AI/crypto czar); originally posted on X (June 2025) and reported by the cited Slashdot story and multiple outlets (Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Cryptopolitan); year 2025 is recent. I kept the Slashdot secondary source rather than switching to the primary X post, since X/Twitter URLs are intentionally avoided as AI-unverifiable. The vote "against" on statement #224 ("Implement a universal basic income") aligns precisely — Sacks dismisses UBI as a leftist "fantasy" that is "not going to happen," clearly opposing it. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3mo ago

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