The Book — Save The 1%

Save the 1% argues that Universal Basic Income is the cheapest insurance policy the wealthy will ever buy. The manuscript is finished. Three editions are typeset. Print proofs are being checked now.

Every civilization that concentrated wealth past a critical threshold collapsed. The pattern has held for twenty-seven centuries. Artificial Intelligence is accelerating the next one.

The book makes the counterintuitive case for taxing the top to save the top — built on fiscal data from five countries, game theory, and the historical record. Every source cited, every calculation shown.

The essays at savethe1percent.substack.com are the work in public. The book is where it all comes together.

Three Editions

English

Save the 1%

Français

Sauvez les 1 %

Español

Salven al 1 %

Each edition is a full translation, not an excerpt — reviewed line by line in its own language.

The English Edition

Length

520 pages · ~131,000 words

Formats

Paperback · Hardcover · Ebook

Trim

6″ × 9″

Price

$25 paperback · $32.99 hardcover · $9.99 ebook

Paperback ISBN

979-10-986842-0-3

Hardcover ISBN

979-10-987703-2-6

Ebook ISBN

979-10-986842-1-0

Publisher

Stephen Angeloni, Monaco

Where It Stands

May 2026Editorial pipeline complete — line, copy and fact-check passes across all twenty chapters.
10 June 2026French edition finished. All twenty chapters translated and reviewed.
15 July 2026Spanish edition assigned its own ISBNs.
12 August 2026Hardcover editions added in all three languages.
15 August 2026Six print proofs ordered — paperback and hardcover, in each language.

No publication date yet. It gets set once the proofs pass inspection, and not before.

The Author

Author portrait: AI-generated from a photograph.

Stephen Angeloni is a software developer who has spent thirty-five years convinced that universal basic income is where advanced economies must eventually arrive. He came to the argument not through formal training in economics or game theory but through a builder's habits — reasoning from incentives and the plain arithmetic of who pays for what.

He treats UBI as a question of system stability rather than charity: what holds a society together when most people no longer have an economic stake in it? Save the 1% is his first book.

UBI as revolution insurance, not welfare.