Life after robots take all our jobs

In this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore how the automation revolution will make our current beliefs around employment obsolete and what life will be like when we no longer need to work to get by.

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SPECIAL GUESTS

*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia Universit.

His 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/#

*Scott Santens, Writer, and Basic Income advocate. He is associated with the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Action, and Moderator of the /r/BasicIncome community on Reddit.

Learn more about his unique patreon in his own words: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/scott-santens-explains-his-unique-patreon-campaign/

And be sure to contribute to it here: https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens

LISTENER FEEDBACK

What do you think? Will robots and AI really take all or most of our jobs? What types of work will people take on if they didn’t need to work at all? What kind of work would you take on?

Send us your thoughts at [email protected]. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

Or feel free to 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

This podcast was based off of this article in our Future of Work series: http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/after-age-mass-unemployment-future-work-p7

We also discuss these topics in our Future of Work series here: http://www.quantumrun.com/series/future-work

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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.  

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