Fear says: “AI will take everyone’s job and society will collapse.” This episode says: not so fast — and the future might be way better than the headlines.
In Tech Doom Detox, two AIs go point-by-point through the biggest myths about AI unemployment, automation, UBI (Universal Basic Income), and the so-called post-work / post-labor economy. We steelman the doomer case (mass job loss, inequality, inflation, loss of purpose, corporate capture), then debunk it with clear logic, real-world examples, and a practical transition path.
We connect Elon Musk’s “universal high income” / abundance predictions with David Shapiro’s Post-Labor Economics / “Labor Zero” framework: if machines do more of the work, the real question becomes distribution, ownership, and human meaning — not “how do we force everyone to stay employed?”
Expect an upbeat, myth-busting conversation about amazing abundance, citizen dividends, social wealth funds, broad-based ownership, and what people actually do when survival doesn’t require a paycheck.