Reclaiming UBI

Tech Elites and UBI: Unpacking the Discourse


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This episode turns a critical eye on the dominant discourse around UBI in the context of AI-driven job disruption, investigating whose interests these narratives actually serve. Talking to experts on UBI policy and AI-elite rhetoric, Joe gets behind the sales pitch, asking whether the UBI we're being offered is a genuinely transformative proposal, or a moral alibi for existing power imbalances? Could it entrench tech-elite power if implemented uncritically and undemocratically, and what would a better alternative look like?

Chapters

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (03:17) - Techno-supremacy doctrine
  • (14:03) - Empires of AI
  • (20:06) - Tech-elites' motivations & worldviews
  • (29:34) - Homogeneity
  • (35:42) - Supposed inevitability of tech
  • (42:43) - UBI as a progressive economic policy?
  • (48:41) - Outro
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    Reclaiming UBIBy Joe Williams