Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation w/ Aaron Benanav
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Importance of Universal Basic Income
The idea that people should provided with enough income, regardless of who they are or what they do is a really beautiful impulse. But in a world of economic stagnation, u b i would face basically the same problems as the welfare state and real decline to funding it. As we see all these austerity measures that are constricting the scope of the size and scope of the welfare state, an stagnatd economy will be put in danger. And so our support for u b i can look much more like these horrible right wing visions that are coming out from neo-liberalism. They will be very disappointed when it turns out that the liberal project isn't such a transformative one.
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