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Not really. It was an obvious scam when OpenAI offered it, and it's an obvious scam with SpaceX too. This isn't UBI.

Voters should let these companies remain private, and tax them to pay for their children's healthcare, education and pensions instead.

Scam Plan

(1) Give $11B away

(2) ???

(3) Profit

Step 2 is "Get votes for his preferred political party, and public support for the government writing regulations to make his life easier".

In particular, everybody has a stake in keeping up his stock price. If it doubles, they collectively gain $11 billion, and he gains $500 billion.

That's a lot of profit.