Money and Work Unchained

De: Charles Hugh Smith

Narrado por: Russell Newton

The current conventional-wisdom view of our soon-to-be future is rose-tinted: Automation will free millions of people from the drudgery of work, then by taxing the robots doing all the work, we can pay everyone universal basic income (UBI), enabling a life of leisure and artistic pursuit for all.

The result: a future of universal happiness. But is this accurate? Is this what UBI is actually capable of doing? More importantly, is this what we want? And even more importantly: Will this “future” be our best future? Will it account for and manage the practicalities of work, money, and automation, given the limits of endless growth on a finite planet?

Money and Work Unchained drags the now-popular concept of universal basic income (UBI) from the shadows of pundit blather into a harsh, illuminating light, and in doing so presents an entirely new view of the future that upends our conventional understanding of work and money. This audiobook lays out a practical pathway that realigns work, money, and human fulfillment into a sustainable system that sheds the inequalities and injustices of the status quo in favor of a human-scale way of living.

©2017 Charles Hugh Smith (P)2019 SpokenTome.Media

Nothing original

Boring and old information. Simply an explanation of what money is (and isn't), and what work is (and isn't). It's unfair that people with capital can earn interest on invested money, it's unfair that people witout skills cannot earn money. Yes, yes, Carl Marx also though this. Nop solutions offered. The reader clearly thought it was boring too, I had to check and see if it was in fact read by a human, not AI, no emotion or infections in the monotonous reading. On a long car journey with nothing else down loaded I persevered to the end.