Donald Trump using AI to enslave Americans via Universal Basic Income
When Barack Obama talked about the need to “redistribute the wealth” during his 2008 presidential campaign, the so-called conservative ranks of the Republican Party were outraged at the socialist-leaning suggestion. Today, however, they are embracing the concept now that Big Tech has allied itself with Donald Trump in a common goal to expand Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eventually turn every aspect of American life over to technocrats and politicians via the creation of a Universal Basic Income.
We begin with Trump’s creation of the $2 trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). In one his first acts as president, Trump issued an executive order creating the SWF to “help maximize the stewardship of our national wealth” and to “invest in great national endeavors for the benefit of all of the American people.”
Conveniently omitted from Trump’s executive order was any specific information about what these investments are and how they will benefit the American people, but as time marches on, we are beginning to see that AI and the Big Tech takeover of society are where these investments will be made and how this takeover is leading us to a robot-run economy where human jobs will be non-existent.
Trump’s establishment of the Sovereign Wealth Fund has the end goal of implementing Universal Basic Income in response to massive job displacement from automation to allegedly ensure that the benefits of technological advancements made by AI are shared by all Americans (via Digital Habits):
- The fund can invest in AI and robotics companies, capture revenue shares from automated industries, and implement taxation on automated processes to create a sustainable funding source for Universal Basic Income.
- The fund will invest in infrastructure, manufacturing, medical research, and AI advancements, potentially providing a steady stream of revenue for UBI.
- The fund’s potential to provide UBI is not just about government handouts, but it’s also about giving everyone a stake in the technological revolution, ensuring that automation benefits all citizens, not just corporations. (Emphasis mine)
Ever since Donald Trump and the Republican Party rebranded conservatism as America First nationalism, they have embraced corporatism and fascism over economic freedom and have been making the “investments” mentioned above to ensure “benefits [for] all citizens” by making government partial owner of numerous private corporations — many of them in AI or AI-related industries. For example, Trump recently struck a deal with computer chip manufacturer Intel to give the company $8.9 billion in government subsidies in exchange for ten percent of Intel’s stock. This deal made the US government Intel’s largest stockholder!
There are many more examples of Trump putting his Big Tech buddies ahead of national interests and liberty, all with the intent of taking full control of the economy through the advancement of AI, the development of digital currency, and the eventual creation of a social credit system.
To those not drinking the orange Kool-Aid, Trump’s intentions concerning AI and Universal Basic Income were made crystal clear when Elon Musk was in charge of DOGE and openly declared the inevitability of UBI and how it would destroy economic liberty (via GoBankingRates.com):
Controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who also heads up the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has said universal basic income is inevitable. However, Musk thinks that the ramifications will be terrible for humanity.
Although Musk certainly says a lot of controversial things, there’s no escaping the fact that he is one of the foremost tech entrepreneurs in history. He particularly has the pulse on the development of artificial intelligence.
In Musk’s eyes, advances in AI will change the world to the point that eventually, hardly anyone will even have a job. This will require governments to pay out a universal basic income, as most people won’t even be drawing a paycheck.
In 2024, Musk took his views a step further, telling the VivaTech conference in Paris that not just a basic income but a high universal income will be the future of the world. As Musk put it, “In a benign scenario … probably none of us will have a job. … But in that benign scenario, there will be universal high income — not universal basic income, universal high income. There will be no shortage of goods or services.” (Emphasis mine)
If Musk’s words sound like something Klaus Schwab would say to the World Economic Forum, there’s good reason. Part of the WEF’s “you’ll own nothing and be happy” agenda will require the governments of the world to provide every man, woman, and child a Universal Basic Income (via WeForum.org):
What do you do? Possibly of more importance, what don’t you do? How does this firm foundation of economic security and positive freedom affect your present and future decisions, from the work you choose to the relationships you maintain, to the risks you take?
The idea is called unconditional or universal basic income, or UBI. It’s like social security for all, and it’s taking root within minds around the world and across the entire political spectrum, for a multitude of converging reasons. Rising inequality, decades of stagnant wages, the transformation of lifelong careers into sub-hourly tasks, exponentially advancing technology like robots and deep neural networks increasingly capable of replacing potentially half of all human labour, world-changing events like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump – all of these and more are pointing to the need to start permanently guaranteeing everyone at least some income. (Emphasis mine)
Though the idea of Universal Basic Income has been around for years, some of the current emphasis of the program began during COVID. For example, the idea was so popular with the Far-Left that Andrew Yang made it a part of his platform in his failed run for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020. Prior to Biden making her his pick for Vice President, then-Sen. Kamala Harris co-sponsored the Monthly Economic Support Act, a plan to give $2000/mo. to people until the COVID “crisis” was over. Families with children would have received even more.
Supporters of Universal Basic Income at the time considered Harris’ bill the first step to making it a permanent entitlement.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t only the Democrats making a push for UBI. Sen. Tom Cotton (R) — who happened to be running for re-election in November 2020 — proposed his own UBI-lite version of Harris’ bill. Shortly after Biden’s victory in 2020, Mitt Romney teamed up with Uncle Joe to advance the Family Security Act — a kind of UBI Lite piece of legislation that called for giving parents an annual total of $4,200 for every child under the age of 6 and $3,000 per child aged 6-17.
Believe it or not, there are 18 states receiving some form of Universal Basic Income in 2025 (including many red states), which means that the job is about half done once Trump’s AI agenda is going full steam ahead.
Donald Trump and his bought-and-paid-for Republican Party are working with Democratic Socialists to make government bigger and destroy liberty. And when it comes to AI and Universal Basic Income, allow me to paraphrase Ayn Rand, “Government help is just as disastrous as government persecution. … The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
Something tells me Washington would disagree with Ms. Rand.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties. He the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty.
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