Inequality is rising globally, and rising inequality is destabilizing. A status quo of increasing inequality self-destructs. To avoid this fate, we must answer this question: Why is the gulf between the wealthy and everyone else widening so dramatical...

SpokenTome.Media’s Mark E. Jeftovic catches up with Charles Hugh Smith. Topics ranged from PropOrNot’s anonymous, unsourced hit piece on …pretty well everybody, to populism, Yellow Vests, so-called “Democratic Socialism” and a new economic fairy  tale called Modern Monetary Theory (“MMT”). Since our last episode we’ve released three more CHS audiobooks: Money and Work Unchained Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege Pathfinding Our Destiny (his latest)

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SpokenTome Audiobooks Mark E. Jeftovic catches up with Charles Hugh Smith. Topics ranged from PropOrNot’s anonymous, unsourced hit piece on …pretty well everybody, to populism, Yellow Vests, so-called “Democratic Socialism” and a new economic fairy tale called “MMT”. Since our last episode we’ve released three more CHS audiobooks: Money and Work Unchained Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege Pathfinding Our Destiny (his newest).

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As we were wrapping up production on Dr Kristian Niemietz’s “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies” we got together on Skype to discuss, “not real socialism”, democratic socialism, and why this bad idea that never works, never dies…. Listen on Youtube or check out the audiobook.

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The current conventional-wisdom view of our soon-to-be future is rose-tinted: Automation will free millions of people from the drudgery of work, then by taxing the robots doing all the work, we can pay everyone universal basic income (UBI), enabling a life of leisure and artistic pursuit for all. The result: a future of universal happiness. But is this accurate? Is this what UBI is actually capable of doing? More importantly, is this what we want? And even more importantly: Will this “future” be our best future? Will it account for and manage the practicalities of work, money, and automation, given the limits of endless growth on a finite planet? Money and Work Unchained drags the now-popular concept of universal basic income (UBI) from the shadows of pundit blather into a harsh, illuminating light, and in doing so presents an entirely new view of the future that upends our conventional understanding of work and money. This audiobook lays out a practical pathway that realigns work, money, and human fulfillment into a sustainable system that sheds the inequalities and injustices of the status quo in favor of a human-scale way of living. Get Audiobook

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