Automation, Guaranteed Income and the Pandemic
From Embers
English - May 28, 2020 01:22 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsNews Society & Culture culture anarchism anarchy canada news politics society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A conversation with a member of the It's Going Down collective about their pre-pandemic text "Livewire: Against Automation, Against UBI, Against Capital." We revisit the text in the context of the pandemic, ever-increasing trends towards automation of various sectors in Canada and the USA, and the Canadian government's emergency relief benefit (CERB), which many have compared to universal basic income.
Read the whole text as a zine here: https://itsgoingdown.org/new-zine-pdf-version-of-livewire-against-automation-against-ubi-against-capital/