Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long Downturn
Jacobin Radio
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Universal Basic Income
A number of left-wing theorists have put forward an action program based on the challenge of automation as they understand it to be. The idea that basic income can be this kind of highway to a radically different and socialist future depends on the automation story being true, he says. "The problems that we face are not merely distributional, they have to do with the organization of our production system"
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