"How we approach Universal Basic Income is a heated debate. I actually debated against UBI in Oxford Union, Not because I don't support individual people... if they don't get a job they shouldn't be helped, but because I don't think there will be a sensible model for government to produce UBI.
However, if we give the pricing power to individuals, in an AI economy where data is really the fuel of an AI economy then selling data is potential income source for UBI."
-Jennifer Zhu Scott, Founding Principal, Radian Partners
"The reason I am excited about blockchain is that it is really transforming the world in the sense that... redesigning the role of corporations and redisigning how wealth is being distributed. If you look at the past 30 years, internet has become the driving force of wealth growth but internet is a very monopolizing economy. Theres no other industry that has such a big networking effect that has favoring the guy on the top. I even think the internet boom could be blamed as part of the reason for the populism politics because even though the global wealth is being driven up tremendously because of internet and digital economy, only a fraction of the population got richer. If you look at blockchain it actually transformed the relationship between consumers and enterprize. Consumers are stakeholders in the beginning of the project. Secondly I think it will challenge the current data ownership mechanism scheme of today. Because I think data of the people should be by the people and for the people. I believe 10 years down the road when we look back we will see peoples data, a person's data the same way we are seeing her intellect and her labor. If you are making a profit based on the users data the user needs to be compensated. I think blockchain can lay the foundation for that and it really has a much deeper and social impact for the entire world.
-Chen Lei, Founder and CEO, Xunlei
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