UBI and the Story of Work

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Host Joe Williams shares the story that sparked the series: watching his freelance translation work dry up in late 2025 as AI reshaped his industry. In this audio-documentary style podcast, Joe uses this opportunity to ask bigger questions. If automation does hollow our the job market, what happens to the social contracts around work? If work is not only a paycheck, but also a source of identity as it is for many people, what might we be able to do to build up societal resilience now?

Joe begins to explore these ideas through reflection, The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, as well interviews with Andrew White and Héctor Pérez-Urbina.

TRANSCRIPT

Chapters

00 ❙ Intro

22 ❙ Inequality in the digital economy

02 ❙ Automation, AI and Work

04 ❙ The Meaning of Work

24 ❙ Relationships with Work

44 ❙ Work Culture

25 ❙ Work and Moral Value

10 ❙ Work as Self-Realisation

03 ❙ Value of Non-Paid Work

43 ❙ Paid vs Non-Paid Work

44 ❙ AI-Elites and UBI Discourse

29 ❙ Outro

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UBI and the Story of Work

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