“Let me tell you about a conversation that should scare the hell out of you.
I sat down with Andrew Yang—the entrepreneur who made Universal Basic Income a household term during his 2020 presidential run—and asked him point-blank: How much time do we have?
When Elon Musk tells us we’re heading toward both “universal high income and social unrest,” when do we actually get to UHI and can we avoid the social unrest?
Andrew’s answer stopped me cold:
“Peter, here’s my prediction: We have a brutal 1-3 year window where we need Universal Basic Income as a bridge, then 3-8 years to build Universal Basic Services, and finally—on the other side—UHI and true Abundance where technology provides everything we need.”
Then Andrew quoted Buckminster Fuller: “The race between utopia and dystopia will be decided at the very last moment.”
We’re in that moment right now. And the clock is ticking.”
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