Economy

VI: Side Hustlin’ in the Gig Economy

Denise Mast, Uber driver, April 2018

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth…

IV: How Universal is Universal Basic Income?

Marjukka Turunen, director at Kela, August 2017

When we get old, things that are destined to come about start to happen, and at last we’re capable of believing those things we once doubted, and…

II: The American Dream

Carmen Rojas, CEO at The Workers Lab, September 2017

White Americans, what
Nothing better to do
Why don’t you kick yourself out
You’re an immigrant too

Who’s using who
What should we do?
Well, you can’t…

I: Does work work?

James Livingston, historian and author of No More Work, August 2017

Does Work Work — and what would we do without it?

He had asked his mother once what made his father so mad, and she had answered that she really didn’t know.
“I think perhaps he doesn’t like his job,” she said.
Lionel said, “Why doesn’t he get another job?”
“Perhaps he can’t think of one he’d…