If people don't produce, they don't have any basic needs met, then people want those crappy jobs. And so kind of the market forces them to do it. But what does it mean to really be able to have other better opportunities? So if one of the fundamental like axioms of or all our economic theories is that we need to figure out how to incent a labor force to do things that nobody to do. An emerging technological automation starts to debase that. That means we have to rethink economics from scraps. Bcause we don't have to do that thing any more.
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?
Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.
This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.
We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.