Ep. 1574 Do Robots Mean a Future of Joblessness?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Antony Sammeroff joins me to discuss his recent Soho Forum debate, in which he argued in the negative, on the resolution: "Robotics will soon lead to widespread joblessness, underemployment, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few."

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0:41.1	Glad to have Anthony Samarov of the Scottish Liberty Podcast
0:44.6	back on the program.
0:46.0	I want to talk to him about his successful debate against Martin Ford
0:51.4	at the Soho Forum just a couple of weeks ago.
0:55.1	They were discussing whether robots and automation were going to lead
0:59.2	to widespread joblessness.
1:01.8	And in the resolution, Anthony took the negative and prevailed by a substantial margin.
1:08.3	So I wanted to talk to him about that debate, some of the points raised in it.
1:12.7	I'm going to link to the debate itself so you can listen to it or watch it at tomwoods.com
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