Redistributing Musk, Bezos, Zuck's fortunes plus Google/OpenAI/Anthropic's market cap yields only $50 per person in permanent UBI
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-19
A counterintuitive back-of-envelope calculation: imagine giving away Elon Musk, Bezos, and Zuck's entire fortunes plus the full market value of Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic—equally split among every person on Earth without destroying those organizations. The result: a permanent UBI of just $50 per person.
The point is that even confiscating all top tech wealth barely moves global per-capita income, underscoring how vast the distribution question around AI dividends really is.
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