Silicon Valley should reject UBI
The world is rapidly entering a time of demonetization (where companies and individuals pay far less than before for the things that they need), and is about to enter a time of rapid de-employment (where high school graduates, college graduates not from Stanford or Harvard, and anyone with any sort of blemish on their resume will find it more and more difficult to find a job). Companies will have fewer employees and pay less salary to keep pace with demonetization.
One solution may be UBI. Just let the government give everyone a check. But Silicon Valley can do better than radically new government policy that relies on politicians.
In the near future of demonetization, companies will still have market values and volatility, which is where another solution may be, such as with a computer program (open source) that can be used by any competent person to successfully trade the stock market, a successful robot trader.
One argument against this is that as soon as any algorithm is implemented, it is no longer useful as the markets adjust. However, successful human traders adjust and are still successful. Thus, this argument that robot traders are impossible is actually an argument that humans will always be better than computers at trading stocks. But as seen with chess, image recognition, and go, betting against computers is not a wise decision.
Crowdfunding can make small groups fantastically rich. How about the reverse? Crowd redistribution where a small group gives people who will never be rich and will never be famous, the ability to pay for their needs.
Is Silicon Valley up to the challenge to use computers and programs to find a solution? Or is Silicon Valley going to give up and pray that politicians and UBI will work to keep the Luddites happy enough to stop them from trashing the place?