Could AI pay everyone a universal high income?

Podcast: Could It Though? · Garry "Gazza"

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

EP02: Could AI Pay Everyone a Universal High Income? Elon Musk says AI and robots will take everyone’s job, and then we’ll all get paid anyway. Not a universal basic income. A universal HIGH income. He even typed it in capitals. So we ran the numbers. Paying all 8.3 billion people a high income costs $119 trillion a year, which is 94% of everything the planet makes. Elon’s trillion dollars would cover it for about three days. Then we look at how the robots are actually going (remote-controlled bartenders, 18,000 cups of water, bacon ice cr...