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Universal Basic Income: Our generation’s New Deal?
In this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore the tools governments will use to support the hordes of unemployed workers that technology will make obsolete. In particular, we explore the growing support among government and Silicon Valley leaders for the Universal Basic Income.
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SPECIAL GUESTS
*Jim Pugh, Cofounder of the Universal Income Project, an organization devoted to the expansion of economic security and human dignity through the implementation of a universal income in America. Learn more about their work here: http://www.universalincome.org/
*Jenna van Draanen, Executive Board Member for the Basic Income Canada Network. Learn more about their petition to advance the support for the UBI at: http://www.basicincomecanada.org/
*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia University, whose new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#
LISTENER FEEDBACK
What do you think? Will a Universal Basic Income save our solve the issue of widescale unemployment? Will it save our economic system from collapse? Do you think it will create a nation Netflix watching couch potatoes?
Send us your thoughts at [email protected]. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website.
Or post a comment in one of our Future of Work articles, also published on Quantumrun.com. We go into way more detail about this topic there.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC
Read the rest of our Future of Work series here: http://www.quantumrun.com/series/future-work
MORE LIFE IN 2030
Listen to more podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast
CREDITS
Executive producer, writer and narrator: David Tal, President of Quantumrun. Reach him @DavidTalWrites across all social media.
Producer and podcast editor: Kaelah Shimonov
All music heard throughout this podcast was composed by Karl Gutowski.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST
Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes. It really does help.
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By Quantumrun.comIn this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore the tools governments will use to support the hordes of unemployed workers that technology will make obsolete. In particular, we explore the growing support among government and Silicon Valley leaders for the Universal Basic Income.
(Subscribe to the Life in 2030 podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or YouTube.)
SPECIAL GUESTS
*Jim Pugh, Cofounder of the Universal Income Project, an organization devoted to the expansion of economic security and human dignity through the implementation of a universal income in America. Learn more about their work here: http://www.universalincome.org/
*Jenna van Draanen, Executive Board Member for the Basic Income Canada Network. Learn more about their petition to advance the support for the UBI at: http://www.basicincomecanada.org/
*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia University, whose new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#
LISTENER FEEDBACK
What do you think? Will a Universal Basic Income save our solve the issue of widescale unemployment? Will it save our economic system from collapse? Do you think it will create a nation Netflix watching couch potatoes?
Send us your thoughts at [email protected]. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website.
Or post a comment in one of our Future of Work articles, also published on Quantumrun.com. We go into way more detail about this topic there.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC
Read the rest of our Future of Work series here: http://www.quantumrun.com/series/future-work
MORE LIFE IN 2030
Listen to more podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast
CREDITS
Executive producer, writer and narrator: David Tal, President of Quantumrun. Reach him @DavidTalWrites across all social media.
Producer and podcast editor: Kaelah Shimonov
All music heard throughout this podcast was composed by Karl Gutowski.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST
Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes. It really does help.