Money For Nothing

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What if we just gave everybody money? It sounds simple, but universal basic income is a trendy idea right now and a lot of you have asked for an episode about a future where everybody gets money from the government no matter what. And it turns out that while it sounds simple, just giving everybody money is way more complicated than you might thing. Guests:Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Senior editor at The Nation, author of The CosmopolitesShaksam Khosla, graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, author of India’s Basic Income: Bedeviled by the Details Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to OpportunityCara Rose deFabio, special initiatives director at Economic Security Project →→ Further Reading Here ←← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The human voice from the future was provided by Daniel Tannenbaum. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.0	Flash Forward is a show.
0:04.0	A.
0:07.0	A.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:11.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host.
0:13.4	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:15.8	Every episode we take on a specific possible,
0:18.8	or not so possible future scenario.
0:22.1	We always start with a little field trip to the future to
0:25.3	check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts
0:30.1	about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:35.0	Got it? Great.
0:37.0	This episode we're starting in the year 2031. 1. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. We apologize for the delay.
1:00.0	As you know, the computational capacity of our UN bot is unrivaled, but we're asking it to solve very complex problems for us.
1:10.0	In this case, the risk analysis and scenario run-thrus took a bit longer than expected,
1:15.2	but we're finally here to let UNBOT describe its decision.
1:19.2	As agreed, UNBOT's decision will be final.
1:24.7	We have learned the hard way what ignoring its orders might do, and I don't need to remind you
1:29.7	all the vote we took, placing full power in the hands of UN Bot. Its algorithms are final.
1:38.4	With that, I will let the UN Bot describe its optimal course of action. Thank you, Senator, Nonsense.
1:47.0	It is a tricky problem you have given me.
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