It mentions Y Combinator and Albert Wenger as Silicon Valley supporters of basic income. I suspect that means... 2 or 3 people? The article lists more radical Italian economists.<p>It&#x27;s completely valid to create a simplified model to understand certain social effects, but when you&#x27;re looking at such a tiny number of people, grouping them into some sort of blob seems more likely to be an attempt to distort than to understand.