Sure. If I had a billion in the bank, I'd be 100% for bribing the common folk with their own tax revenues. As a rich person, the only thing preferable to no taxes is exorbitantly high taxes so no-one else can get rich and my relative purchasing power remains high. Brilliant plan.
What you want as a plutocrat is a system where you have (high) taxes redistributed in a way so that you can recollect the taxes through the organizations (companies) you control by having the recipients of the redistribution purchase your organizations' goods and services.
A guy worth ~$62 Billion talking basic income; someone who's looking to lead the world in automation alongside Google and Amazon. Not to get all nutty, but it seems strange that billionaires are the ones to lead the conversation in basic income.
Sure they know more than anyone that automation is coming, but exactly how soon and far stretching?
