David Patterson: People Living on $1/Day May Get $10M-Yearly UHI Payments in 20 Years
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-21
Computer architecture legend and TPU pioneer David Patterson makes a bold call: people living on a dollar a day today will receive UHI (universal high income) payments worth ten million dollars a year twenty years from now—an extremely optimistic bet on AI-driven productivity and wealth distribution.
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