#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Air Date 3/1/2024
We don't have to think too hard to understand the fears of a world in which work, and the ability of millions to support themselves, are lost to automation and artificial intelligence. But that is only a capitalist future in which the benefits of technological advancement are hoarded by the already-wealthy. Today we imagine a different path.
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SHOW NOTES
Introduction to Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.
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Ch. 10: Final comments on living our values and stepping away from work
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| 0:16.9 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we think beyond the fears of a world in which work and the ability for millions to support themselves financially through work is lost to automation and artificial intelligence because that is only a capitalist future in which the benefits |
| 0:22.2 | of technological advancement are hoarded by the already wealthy. |
| 0:26.0 | Today we imagine a different path. |
| 0:29.0 | Sources today include the book Inventing the future, Novara Media, Second Thought, One Dime, and Futurology with |
| 0:38.0 | additional members only clips from Novara Media. Navarro media? Where did the future go? |
| 0:48.0 | For much of the 20th century, the future held sway over our dreams. |
| 0:53.0 | On the horizons of the political left a vast assortment of emancipatory visions gathered, |
| 0:58.0 | often springing from the conjunction of popular political power and the liberating potential of technology. |
| 1:04.8 | From predictions of new worlds of leisure to Soviet-era cosmic communism, to Afro-Futurist celebrations of the synthetic and diasparic nature of black culture, to post-gendered dreams of radical feminism, |
| 1:17.0 | the popular imagination of the left envisaged societies vastly superior to anything we dream of today. |
| 1:24.0 | Through popular political control of new technologies, we would collectively |
| 1:28.0 | transform our world for the better. |
| 1:30.0 | Today, on one level, these dreams appear closer than ever. |
| 1:34.8 | The technological infrastructure of the 21st century is producing the resources by which a very |
| 1:40.3 | different political and economic system could be achieved. |
| 1:44.8 | Machines are accomplishing tasks that were unimaginable a decade ago. |
| 1:48.9 | The internet and social media are giving a voice to billions who previously went unheard, bringing global |
| 1:54.7 | participative democracy closer than ever to existence. |
| 1:58.2 | Open source designs, copay left creativity, and 3D printing all poor tender world where the scarcity of many products |
| 2:05.9 | might be overcome. |
| 2:07.7 | New forms of computer simulation could rejuvenate economic planning and give us the ability to direct economies rationally in unprecedented ways. |
| 2:17.0 | The newest wave of automation is creating the possibility for huge swaths of boring and demeaning work to be permanently eliminated. |
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