We need a future where the robots benefit all of us, not just the rich

The problem with a universal wage is that it doesn't increase the availability of things like real estate, education, and healthcare. As more people have money it will create more inflation on these goods and services and then we are back to where you started except that $2,000/month will be worth the equivalent of $200/month. I think we would be better off with free education, expand housing stock in growth centers like NY or SF to bring down the cost of living.

> We have achieved a level of social equality barely imagined by progressives 50 years ago, but economic equality has gotten much worse.

The is essentially the main point of the op-ed. I wish everyone could read PG's How to Make Wealth. http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

They misunderstand the negative income tax. My understanding is it doesn't require work necessarily. In function, it's a guaranteed basic income. Milton Friedman on Negative Income Tax -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM