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Our guest this week is Guy Standing, who is a British labour economist. He is professor of Development Studies at SOAS and co-founder of BIEN, the Basic Income Earth Network.

He is best known as a long-standing and prominent advocate of Basic Income, but he is also responsible for redefining and revitalizing the term ‘precariat’.

Guy has written extensively about capitalism and labour market policy. Among his many books are Basic income: and how we can make it happen, A plunder of the commons, a manifesto for sharing public wealth, The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay, The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea.

We talk about:

A brief history of capitalism
Rentier capitalism
The emergence of a precariat
Plutocracy and Trump
Will AI liberate us after all
The dignity of a basic income for everyone
Realisation and execution of basic income pilots

Let’s debate!

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On The Precariat with Guy Standing