Save the 1%

A security consultant lays a single chart on a billionaire's kitchen counter. Left column: France, 1788. Right column: the United States, today. The numbers are almost identical. That is the problem.

When the top of society owns everything and the bottom owns nothing, history offers one reliable outcome. Now artificial intelligence is about to remove the economic value of most human work, permanently. Save the 1% makes the counterintuitive case that Universal Basic Income is not welfare, not charity, and not a left-wing program. It is revolution insurance, and the people who should want it most are the ones with the most to lose.

Working from history, macroeconomics, and game theory, Stephen Angeloni eliminates every alternative (job guarantees, robot taxes, shorter weeks) before arriving at the only mechanism the math supports. This is the case for redistribution made not on fairness, but on self-preservation.