At a U.S.-Saudi investment forum last month, Elon Musk, father of 14 children, said that in an AI-rich future only 10 or 20 percent of people will need a job, with most work handled by robots — a world he’s framed as compatible with some form of “universal high income.” He meant it as a benign future scenario. Within days, Beijing offered a real-world stress test for that scenario. China announced it will add a 13 percent tax to condoms and other contraceptives—ending a three-decade exemption—