The Machinist

A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron Benanav


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Episode: A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron Benanav
Pub date: 2025-09-11

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Paris Marx is joined by Aaron Benanav to discuss his vision for a multi-criterial economy and how it would alter the type of technology our society creates. It’s a plan to center human experience through democratic discourse while driving true social and technological innovation.

Aaron Benanav is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and the author of Automation and the Future of Work.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • The two parts of Aaron’s essay on a Multi-Criterial Economy were published in the New Left Review.

  • Learn more about the briefly discussed Bangladesh youth led revolution.



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