UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built

The article argues that since the mid-1970s, U.S. productivity gains have been decoupled from worker wages due to deliberate policy choices, with the RAND Corporation estimating a cumulative $79 trillion gap flowing upward from the bottom 90% of earners. It contends that traditional fixes like minimum wage hikes, unions, universal healthcare, or shorter work weeks each address only part of the problem, and that Universal Basic Income is the only mechanism to distribute productivity and AI-driven gains to everyone equally.