Ep 121 - Automation & The Future Of Work w/ Aaron Benanav
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "Automation and the Future of Work." While automation theorists predict that we are headed for a smooth transition to fully automated luxury communism (or is it partially automated poverty capitalism?) with a little help from our friend Andrew Yang, Benanav says not so fast. To provide an alternate explanation for the dropping demand for labor, he takes us through the book's key arguments, savors some Keynesian tears, pokes holes in the idea of a UBI, and sets us up nicely for part 2 (out Friday!) where we talk about how to get from our current hellworld to a society built around human needs.
Outro music: Limp Bizkit - I'm Broke
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| 0:00.0 | I will I got to tell you I have had a few packages stolen recently. They're gonna make somebody sign for this. he just |
| 0:15.0 | it's stolen recently. They're not gonna leave a $1,500 computer just sitting in the hall. |
| 0:20.0 | It was a very strange thing. |
| 0:21.0 | It happened with my wine that I ordered for delivery the other day, |
| 0:26.2 | like through one of those apps. Like, it was so bizarre. My wine, it said it was delivered, |
| 0:32.4 | it never showed up. I called the place, they talked to the |
| 0:34.5 | literary guy, he said he left it with a small, bald man, was like on my landing and seemed like he knew me and I was like what the fuck just some random |
| 0:45.9 | ass bald dude huh there is a small man stealing my stealing my stuff in my |
| 0:52.0 | building I'm like dude you know I ever find that guy you're never |
| 0:57.0 | gonna find him because it was the perfect crime the wine cry and The wine cry. |
| 1:03.0 | And someone stole my wine glasses too. |
| 1:05.0 | It had to be the same guy. |
| 1:08.0 | We got wine and glasses. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, they were just waiting around. |
| 1:11.0 | He got the wine and then he's like oh God I bet she's getting |
| 1:13.8 | glasses too and then waited to get those as well. It's pretty brilliant I got to say good |
| 1:18.1 | job small bald man. Anyway that's what happens when I when I broadcast to the world that I'm getting into wine, you know? |
| 1:27.0 | These vultures just swoop into your landing. |
| 1:30.0 | That's a good maybe cold open. I don't know you want to start the show? Yeah sure all right |
| 1:36.7 | Moving on from wine crimes if you see a drunken leprochrecon somewhere |
| 1:42.2 | Please make a citizen's arrest on my behalf we're going to |
| 1:45.0 | on the police make a citizen's arrest on my behalf. I'll stick the wine cops on them. |
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