Tarnoff’s article argues that Silicon Valley’s interest in the basic income idea is driven by an intention to appease the public with a basic income while they reap large profits as the wealthy few who own the means of production in a world of technological unemployment. He finds the technological unemployment argument overstated and a way to establish a meritocratic view of successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

Ben Tarnoff, “Tech billionaires got rich off us. Now they want to feed us the crumbs“, The Guardian, 16 May 2016.