Week were going to do a very close examination just something called the you be stacy universal basic income max that is free money every month a 1000. 00 for you to rip up every month for your Performance Art for example joining us to discuss universal basic income we have Sinclair Skinner marshall our back and josh universal basic income has smashed onto the stage with andrew yang whatever he was asked should we be in the middle east fighting for the Oil Universal basic income is the answer whatever the question was universal basic income was his answer this idea of giving free money its kind of based off of the notion that well the fed gave free money to the banks to bail them out 14. 00 trillion dollars why not give us a trillion dollars a year in free money josh many think thats why i think you know i think thats where it starts is is this sort of you know justice and thinking about money as this obstruct thing that that Central Banks can print with theres no consequences for debt
Welcome to the front running 2025 x. Prize with stacey harbor as we count down. And intrigue. The election this week were going to do a very close examination just something called the you be stacy universal basic income max that is free money every month a 1000. 00 for you to rip up every month for your Performance Art for example joining us to discuss universal basic income we have Sinclair Skinner marshall our back and josh universal basic income has smashed onto the stage with andrew yang whatever he was asked should we be in the middle east fighting for the Oil Universal basic income is the answer whatever the question was universal basic income was his answer this idea of giving free money its kind of based off of the notion that well the fed gave free money to the banks to bail them out 14. 00 trillion dollars why not give us a trillion dollars a year in free money josh many think thats why i think you know i think thats where it starts is is this sort of you know justice and th
Trillion dollars why not give us a trillion dollars a year in free money josh many think thats why i think you know if thats where it starts is is this sort of you know justice and thinking about money as this obstruct thing that Central Banks can print with theres no consequences for debt and so why not why not distribute this way is where it comes down to also you know i pay taxes presumably to get something in exchange i get the infrastructure i get the place i get the sanitation i get the military and its an abstract process and it goes through the matrix of politicians but why cant i just pay my taxes and get a dividend back i can make an investment in any other enterprise i get yang calls that are freedom dividend should be being paid dividends from my investment into america the enterprise again i think it comes back to this its as much about justice as i can on that and so its i think this is. And you know regardless if the economy is growing in the share the distribution is ju
To understand why people are anxious to see how concerned they should be. And what is changing and what is different this time. And what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leaves not just a productivity growth but some degree of shared prosperity. Our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function while for as many workers if possible. Also the challenge and the lesson if you read a report which was just released last week. One of the things that we say is a critical economic lesson of the 20th century. Is that a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass and without that foundation of opportunity and prosperity its very difficult for other things to work well. It also makes work work and that is why its such an honor to have mary kay mary gray here today talking about her book ghost work just to give you a tiny bit of background she is a call drill cultural anthropologist. Her earlier work has been on the communicati
In later tonight, former fbi agent Josh Campbell shares his thoughts on the fbi under president trump. That starts now. Check your Program Guide for more information. Here is author mary gray on labor and big tech. Welcome everybody. Thank you, thank you for coming. Im glad to see you all here. My name is a faculty member in the Economics Department and one of the cochairs of the mit work of the future task force that was commissioned by rafael wright, a year ago spring. The purpose of the task forces to engage and confront the sense that many have that the labor Market Technology is changing rapidly to understands why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing, what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leads to not just productivity growth but to some degree of shared prosperity in our focus is on the labor market, on how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible, that is wh