Tech Elies and UBI: Unpacking the Discourse

This episode turns a critical eye on the dominant discourse around UBI in the context of AI-driven job disruption, investigating whose interests these narratives actually serve. Talking to experts on UBI policy and AI-elite rhetoric, Joe gets behind the sales pitch, asking whether the UBI we’re being offered is a genuinely transformative proposal, or a moral alibi for existing power imbalances? Could it entrench tech-elite power if implemented uncritically and undemocratically, and what would a better alternative look like?