Chris Hughes considers himself lucky—too lucky. Chris was born into a modest family in North Carolina before getting a scholarship to Harvard University, where he was the freshman roommate to a guy named Mark Zuckerberg. That led to him becoming one of the co-founders of Facebook, core to the startup in the early days, including being the spokesperson for the company. That alone made him a very lucky man, and a very, very wealthy one—too wealthy. Chris now thinks that no one like him should be worth millions of dollars when so many other people in America can barely make ends meet. And if we think it’s bad now, Chris worries that the increasing prevalence of automation might only make things worse. He believes income inequality has become one of the biggest challenges of our time and has dedicated himself to rethinking the fundamentals of our economy. As co-founder of the Economic Security Project, Chris champions the economic policy innovation of Universal Basic Income, or UBI. He also just came out with a book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn, that explains UBI and his personal evolution into becoming a believer.