Universal High Income: How Do We Get There?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:02]When we were together When we were together um we discussed the idea of sustainable abundance on our podcast and you reinforced the idea that we have a coming age of universal high income uh which has become a point of discussion beyond UBI but I'm just wondering if you have any thoughts on how we get there. Have you reflected on that any further?

[00:00:27]And and more so, you know, we talked about a time frame of civil unrest, you know, two, three, four, five years, uh probably uh a lot of COVID-like checks in the interim until we get to a demonetization uh and a, you know, deflation that leads us to UHI. Any more reflections on that?

[00:00:47]Cuz that's a really People need that hope and that vision.

[00:00:53]Yeah, I I I mean, to be clear, I I don't think we should be sort of complacent.

[00:00:57]We need to We do need to be careful because the future has a range of possible outcomes and uh they're not all great.

[00:01:03]Um but I I at this point I I I I do agree with you that it's it's likely to be great.

[00:01:10]Um you know, it's probably 80% likely, maybe more likely to be great.

[00:01:14]And uh and I and I do think we'll have universal high income. We're We're basically just issuing money to people, you know, and and the really just uh the