Aaron Bastani | On Fully Automated Luxury Communism, climate change, and more

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Published on December 22, 2019 4:00:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT6xiMUSPm8

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Could we live in a post-scarcity world? And is capitalism the system to
take us there? Or is there another way? Journalist and broadcaster Aaron Bastani explains why fully automated luxury communism might be the way to a fairer future.

This interview was filmed at HowTheLightGetsIn, on 22nd September 2019.

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Aaron Bastani is the co-founder and Senior Editor of Novara Media. His new
book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, is a manifesto “for a new kind of
society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism”. Bastani has also written
for Vice, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times,
and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News.

#communism #socialism #capitalism

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