The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center 'UBI' Payments (daringfireball.net)

Petrostates are well funded. Saudi Arabia also buys off its native population.

Gruber shilling for the AI industry is embarrassing.

I heard it tries to compensate for the expensiveness of living in Alaska - and fails.

The real source of “economic equality” is a ready supply of jobs for blue collar workers - oil, fishing, tourism, etc.

And the fact poor people leave, and don’t come in the first place.

I’ve heard similar things about Sweden: social welfare to avoid massive deaths by ice.