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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2023
- Several crises are set to define the next century -- but journalist Aaron Bastani believes we have the technological ability to meet our biggest challenges and create unprecedented levels of prosperity for all. He shows how we could get there by ditching capitalism as the world's economic operating system and adopting "universal basic services," where governments would freely provide life essentials like housing, health care, education and transport. (Followed by Q&A with head of TED Chris Anderson and public finance expert Maja Bosnic)
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Yet, for some unknown reason, people are against this? I don't know as to why.
Are there any people that will argue this? Why does everyone just accept these soft words without question?
This is a real wake up call as to how far our shared consciousness has shifted to the right, that floating the idea that people have access to the basic necessities of a functional society and taxes are fair is considered mind-blowing. However Aaron does an amazing job of presenting and his book is much more visionary in terms of imaging post-capitalist possibilities.
It sounds so good when nobody debates it, a lie detector would burn out
If we can bail out the banks for 100s of billions we can afford to distribute their wealth in a way that pays for our basic services. It is a question of Socialism or Barbarism and unfortunately our struggle won't come easy. That's where we read Lenin, and I know Bastani won't go there! Lol I like him a lot though he's great
“You have to act as if were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time” - Angela Davis. Change is possible, and necessary, don’t be fooled by the thought that capitalism is the end of history. As Aaron said, if man has ambitions to terraform Mars, surely we can be equally ambitious about earth and the future we want for our species.
Most countries in Europe have a kind of UBS already. In my country, Portugal, health and education is free, public transport is very cheap and if you live in Lisbon it's free for students and elderly. For housing it's a little trickier, but there's social housing for the poorest, but housing is something that needs to be improved.
Yanis Varoufakis suggests that as all tech advances developments are paid for by the state, tax payers, then given to private companies to make profits, these companies should pay dividends from profits back to those, tax payers.
"I'm a writer, journalist and all round W⚓..."
Housing, education,healthcare and transport. I'd add a big one ,Energy, to that.
Anyone else noticed the “to not just thrive but to survive” bit?
Excellent talk Aaron! - Keep up the good work!
Can admit, finally hearing the socialist voice from TED tribunes makes me very happy.
Great speech. More like this please!!
UBS is definitely more practical than UBI, out of the 4, housing and health care is probably the hardest to solve, but transportation and education especially should be free
Fantastic job giving socialism a great explanation in such a short time. Well done!
He invokes South Africa as an example of a failing capitalist state, completely ignoring the fact that it's actually a kleptocracy. I challenge him to find a communist country that doesn't end up as a kleptocracy.
A mixed economy that balances the excesses of the two systems would be best. A rebalence every few years would be needed.
So I see here we have to re-teach ourselves the basics, after our universities have systematically promoted neoliberalism is their teaching, to an extent that is undignified of what should be university studies and sciences. And I live in Canada, where our system still maintains public services, although they are actively being eroded, privatized, and weakened.
Great talk Aaron!