David Patterson on Universal High Income: Distributing Machine Output
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-08-27
David Patterson argues that Universal High Income (UHI) differs from welfare. It is not a transfer from productive to non-productive workers, nor a redistribution of wealth from rich to poor, but a mechanism for distributing the output of machines to consumers.
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