Nora Bateson, systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker discusses warm data, interconnectedness, and human domestication. She challenges traditional notions of ownership and boundaries and emphasizes the need for a holistic approach in politics. Bateson explores the concept of engaging differently with others and recognizing complexity in relationships.
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UBI at Uber
Douglas Rushkoff recounts a talk he gave at Uber where an employee suggested UBI as a solution to economic hardship.
Rushkoff argues this highlights how UBI can be misused to subsidize corporations rather than empower individuals.
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Universal Basic Assets
Instead of Universal Basic Income (UBI), Rushkoff proposes Universal Basic Assets (UBA).
UBA focuses on distributing ownership and control, turning consumers into stakeholders and citizens.
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Responding to Complexity
Responding effectively to complex global challenges requires acknowledging our interconnectedness and moving beyond numbness.
This involves addressing the pain of past exploitation and cultivating sensitivity to perceive systemic connections.
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Playing for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala.
I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new film An Ecology of Mind about her father Gregory Bateson, one of the principle developers of cybernetic and systems theory. But as I got to know Nora and her work, particularly the book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, I realized she was taking what we think of as systems theory to a whole new and intrinsically human level. I ran into her again at the fiftieth anniversary conference of the Institute For the Future in Palo Alto where she gave an entirely optimistic yet grounded talk on how to bring an awareness of the liminal spaces between systems into account as we attempt to make our world more consonant with the values of life.
Douglas opens today's show with a monologue on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and why, if the goal is economic justice, a universal "allowance" just won't do.
“The vast transfer of wealth from the poor to rich may be complete, but now we can use UBI to funnel even more capital up to the already wealthy and keep the scheme going.”
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