Daniel Pink writes how people have “three innate psychological needs — competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we’re motivated, productive, and happy.” (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, 2011.) medium.com/@Livable4All...
"it’s important to address and recognize the psychological role of paid work. People of any age, but especially youth, may still want or need a structured way to gain skills, meaningful experiences, and social connections." medium.com/@Livable4All...
there's a lot of discussion on paid work and meaning. This seems to overlook that many jobs are crap jobs that have no meaning aka bullshit jobs. But in a post UBI world, this topic will still be important to discuss....
LOL.
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/
#CBC #MasseyLectures
houseofanansi.com/collections/...
I was explaining to a nihilist today about non-zero dynamics...
"we on earth benefit from a near endless stream of energy coming from the sun, which has enabled inefficient vehicles for growth to generate unfathomable emergent phenomena, right up to our own brains and beyond..."
It came out nice..
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
Agreed. A very important take indeed:
You aren't being serious about a policy response to AI if you're not including universal basic income as one of the dials to turn in your policy response package.
"working people" a phrase used frequently by progressives/left etc. (e.g. Bernie Sanders). Question: If people lose their jobs, are they still "working people"? Surely it's time to admit this phrase is no longer useful and is, in fact, harmful.
In your interview on CNN on March 24, you frequently refer to "working people". Question: If people lose their jobs, are they still "working people"? Surely it's time to admit this phrase is no longer useful, and in fact is harmful.
Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say:
A tech company - Block - just cut 40% of its 10,000 workers, the highest percentage layoff in the history of the S & P 500. Its stock jumped 20%. This is a huge sign of what’s to come. Major companies are going to jettison workers on an unprecedented scale and be rewarded for it.
Debated AI and jobs last week for Open to Debate and it’s going to air this weekend on NPR - excited for people to hear it.
“The mass media does not reveal reality, it masks it. It doesn’t help bring about change; it helps avoid change. It doesn’t encourage democratic participation; it induces passivity, resignation, and selfishness. It doesn’t generate creativity; it creates consumers. Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
“The mass media does not reveal reality, it masks it. It doesn’t help bring about change; it helps avoid change. It doesn’t encourage democratic participation; it induces passivity, resignation, and selfishness. It doesn’t generate creativity; it creates consumers.
Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
“The mass media does not reveal reality, it masks it. It doesn’t help bring about change; it helps avoid change. It doesn’t encourage democratic participation; it induces passivity, resignation, and selfishness. It doesn’t generate creativity; it creates consumers. Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
“The mass media does not reveal reality, it masks it. It doesn’t help bring about change; it helps avoid change. It doesn’t encourage democratic participation; it induces passivity, resignation, and selfishness. It doesn’t generate creativity; it creates consumers.
Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
A Pew Research poll of 20 countries asked if residents thought their fellow citizens had bad ethics & morality. Only Americans were more likely to think that.
ttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/
#DavidHume time.com/archive/6735...
davidhume.org/texts/h/31
darwin-online.org.uk
www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php/...
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997
photos of oil spills, garbage dumps, missiles, clear cuts, parched earth.
Crapitalism or "enshittification"? Crapitalism recognizes the problem as systemic. Crapitalism is the process of turning good resources into crap in order to keep the consumption/jobs cycle going. This is why we need a UBI / GLI / a livable4all basic income www.livableincome.org/acrapitalism...
photos of oil spills, garbage dumps, missiles, clear cuts, parched earth.
Crapitalism or "enshittification"? Crapitalism recognizes the problem as systemic. Crapitalism is the process of turning good resources into crap in order to keep the consumption/jobs cycle going. This is why we need a UBI / GLI / a livable4all basic income www.livableincome.org/acrapitalism...
#vintage from 1975 news on Manitoba Mincome
"CHALLENGING THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC:
What would a guaranteed annual income do to Canada?
The people of Dauphin, Manitoba, may give us the answer" (re UBI, basic income, guaranteed livable income) livableincome.org/mincomeclip1...
#vintage from 1975 news on Manitoba Mincome
"CHALLENGING THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC:
What would a guaranteed annual income do to Canada?
The people of Dauphin, Manitoba, may give us the answer" (re UBI, basic income, guaranteed livable income) livableincome.org/mincomeclip1...
Cover of the book Happiness by Will Ferguson published by Penguin.
Book rec: Happiness by Will Ferguson- a satire on what happens when someone writes a self-help book that works. (Answ: when ppl happy, the economy isn't). Next, ask: What kind of an economy do we have (and go along with) if it relies on mass unhappiness? (Not a 'right/left' problem.)
