Aaron Bastani is thinking about automated luxury…communism?

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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With such rampant inequality across the globe, it’s difficult to imagine that in the near future, society could be a place of abundance where everyone has education, healthcare, or housing. But for journalist Aaron Bastani, this improved state of affairs is not off limits; in fact, he believes that, with technology, a better world could be closer than we think. In this episode, Aaron speaks to how and why we should leverage the technological revolution to confront the global challenges of the 21st century. You can read more of his ideas in his much-discussed book Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
0:05.0	That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.
0:07.0	Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.
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0:30.0	Every leader wants their employees to live and work happily ever after.
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0:58.0	Welcome to the Ted interview.
1:00.0	I'm your host, Stephen Johnson.
1:02.0	It may seem strange given our current reality of runaway inflation
1:07.0	and supply chain bottlenecks and $6 a gallon gasoline.
1:11.0	But there's an influential group of thinkers out there
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