Episode 123 - UBIsoft feat. Clio Chang (7/10/17) by Chapo Trap House published on 2017-07-10T05:03:30Z Clio Chang (@cliomiso) joins us to talk Mark Zuccerberg, universal basic income, its popularity among libertarians and its limitations for the rest of us. For the second half of the show we read Dear Prudie letters to Amber, resident advice columnist. Write in to Amber's column Your Sorry Ass: yoursorryass@thebaffler.com Genre News & Politics Comment by Matthew Pearl Uh, that's not a reefer 2021-04-22T11:45:38Z Comment by Matthew Pearl Wait, smug hippie mom in law drives 11 hours 6 times a year to dump her bio waste? Lock her up! 2021-04-22T11:43:51Z Comment by Technodemokraterna Wait, you ca buy a single roll of toilet paper how much do that cost? 2017-09-01T22:45:28Z Comment by Petuniia Second half of the show starts, reading Dear Prudie letters to Amber. 2017-07-29T22:09:29Z Comment by Petuniia "Truth is we require so much more infrastructure. There aren't enough hospitals. There should be so many jobs for people building new things right now." 2017-07-29T22:00:53Z Comment by Petuniia "Decommodifying necessary goods we are talking about housing, education, healthcare, eldercare, childcare, food. Food stamps for everyone. Seize the whole foods hotbar and that's for everyone now." 2017-07-29T21:52:06Z Comment by Petuniia "...are seeing this insanely unsustainable rise in rent. Those are only going to go up in a situation where people are getting money from the government. That's why I like the idea of decommodifying essential stuff like healthcare and housing." -Cushbomb 2017-07-29T21:38:05Z Comment by rumney So you spend 20 minutes fantasizing about government takeovers of everything and then, without irony, point out how the MTA (hint: GOVERNMENT-RUN INDUSTRY) is a shitshow. Good lord I thought it would be better than this. 2017-07-15T19:45:58Z Comment by rumney That's what UBI is. You are so close to getting it. 2017-07-15T19:33:34Z Comment by rumney Can't tell if serious about Soviet model 2017-07-15T19:32:07Z Comment by Patrick Ellis Attention K-Mart shoppers! (https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989) 2017-07-14T01:37:55Z Comment by Uncle_Joe How is that the "Soviet model"? 2017-07-13T19:13:20Z Comment by Dominick Rauba "Have any of them confronted the fact that Silicon Valley hasn't actually created anything." 2017-07-13T17:00:24Z Comment by Dominick Rauba Might be useful to be more informed about Silicon Valley 2017-07-13T16:59:34Z Comment by Survivance Wrong cause. Wrong cure. Wrong tone. Unleash the full Chapo. Show no mercy :) 2017-07-12T22:05:10Z Comment by Survivance The Uncertain Hour gets the tone of this story all wrong. Instead of calm and clearly disinterested curiosity. It should be fury barely contained by the emancipatory need to communicate a deep and deeply persuasive story to the working class. 2017-07-12T21:58:10Z Comment by Survivance The Uncertain Hour misidentifies the cure to welfare "reform." NPR/APM's The Uncertain Hour claims that high school, associates degrees, and bachelors degrees (technocratic vocational "education") are the cure. The cure is fully-automated queer space gulag-for-NPR's-crimes-against-the-working-class communism. The communists' compromise is Denmark welfare: clean fucking water, food, housing, healthcare, cellphone, and demilitarization. 2017-07-12T21:54:27Z Comment by Survivance The Uncertain Hour misidentifies the cause of welfare "reform." The Uncertain Hour claims that it was a technocratic mistake when the American ownership class manufactured consent through their schools, newspapers, radio stations, tv stations, direct mailers, bourgeois academics, think tanks, thinkfluencers, "thought leaders," websites, robocalls, astro turf groups, "advocacy groups," capitalist churches, their TED Talks, their surveys. Money is speech. NPR depoliticized and dematerialized the clear and certain historical cause of welfare "reform" (I hate that euphemism "reform." Should be heist or plunder or pillage). 2017-07-12T21:45:58Z Comment by Survivance Just finishing the sixth and final episode of The Uncertain Hour by NPR. My rage is peaking above the stratosphere. They are tripling down on the "get a college degree or die face down in a ditch" storytelling. We don't need more accountants, middle managers, and health insurance claim deniers. We need direct democratic control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. Education is not a ladder out of poverty. Education is the gatekeeper. Education is the rebellion queller. The quarter quell. Education is the hunger games. It manufactures individualism and splinters solidarity. Liberals are just the woooOoOOooOoorst. AHHHHHHHHHH 2017-07-12T21:34:32Z Comment by Cm Byrd These people are severely mentally handicapped. This sounds like it was made for stoned 14 year olds. 2017-07-12T18:26:17Z Comment by Survivance So a friend recommended The Uncertain Hour by NPR (Not Poverty Relatable) and it's a neoliberal coverup for a lot of sinister shit. Just wondering if you could set your lazer to kill and obliterate the fuck out of it sometime. Particularly around the idea that "everyone" (third way scabs) wanted to "reform" (steal) welfare. Maybe get Matty B to come through with that hammer of truth? More NPR bashing pleeeez 2017-07-12T04:31:23Z Comment by Survivance Pretty sure this tasty podcast taught me more about UBI than reading the book Four Futures by Peter Frase 2017-07-12T04:21:41Z Comment by CdrFuzz Zuckerberg looks like the fucking Microsoft paperclip 2017-07-11T09:40:48Z Comment by kahigg oh man mortberg and chapo at once 2017-07-11T06:56:07Z Comment by CartoonDiablo WHERES FELIXXXX 2017-07-11T04:15:17Z Comment by yung_pattawan YES Pruitt-Igoe Myth is so good. See it all the time while going to school in StL 2017-07-11T03:32:58Z Comment by Sean Morris "you're creating a floor just so you can get rid of the ceiling" FUCK. 2017-07-11T02:09:11Z Comment by Stephen Baynham CLASSIC INTRO 2017-07-10T21:03:28Z Comment by birk bg music if any1s wondering: https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989 2017-07-10T18:50:54Z Comment by Bea Arthur Death Cult Do a show about Salvador Allende and the Cybersyn project 2017-07-10T17:01:36Z