we talk about the newest edition of the Forbes 400--the richest evil bastards on the planet.

(fyi the Forbes 400 does NOT include home addresses, which seems shortsighted imho)

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On July 15th 2016, a faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. Erdogan's loyalists quickly rallied and squashed the attempted coup. In the aftermath, Erdogan blamed the reclusive U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gülen for the coup and demanded his extradition to Turkey. In this week's episode Mike and Danny discuss Gülen and his followers as well as the probability of him being behind the failed coup.

Fethullah Gulen And Turkeys Failed Coup

Hoover Institution fellow John Cochrane discusses the “new normal” of 2 percent annual growth in GDP, which doesn’t sound far off from the 3.5 percent growth that characterized the US economy from 1950 to 2000. Compounded over decades, however, this seemingly small disparity represents huge amounts of forgone income—for both individuals and the nation. Politicians and media may focus on interest rates, pay equity, or union rights as economic remedies, yet, as John Cochrane shows, economic growth is largely a function of productivity. Unfortunately, burdensome regulations act like “sand in the gears” of the US economy, slowing productivity and throttling economic expansion. Cochrane explains a number of commonsense fiscal and institutional reforms to accelerate economic growth and restore—or even surpass—the upward trajectory of incomes enjoyed in earlier decades.

Policies for Economic Growth

Historian James Livingston examines the deep problem with employment in the 21st century - the broken relationship between work and income, and explains why we must look beyond capitalism's intellectual decrepitude, and to the rising rate of transfer payments, if we are to reclaim our labor, our happiness and our time from the demands of capitalism.

James is the author of the new book "No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea" from UNC Press and the Aeon essay "Fuck Work."

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3792

https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem

Fuck work: The case against full employment, and for guaranteed income.

In this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore how the technologies we’re currently working on could one day lead to our next evolutionary jump from man to machine.

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Future of Beauty: Future of Human Evolution P1
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Engineering the perfect baby: Future of Human Evolution P2
http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/engineering-perfect-baby-future-human-evolution-p2

Biohacking Superhumans: Future of Human Evolution P3
http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/biohacking-superhumans-future-human-evolution-p3

Techno-Evolution and Human Martians: Future of Human Evolution P4
http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/techno-evolution-and-human-martians-future-human-evolution-p4

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Politicians and economists have increasingly been talking about the risks of a future where robots make all of our jobs obsolete. But is that future already upon us?

And in the meantime, are big companies using technology to create 21st century workhouses with bad conditions and even worse pay?

Joining Ayeisha this week are Stefan Baskerville, NEF's Principal Director for Unions and Business, and familiar faces Alice Martin and Annie Quick.

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Are Robots Already Stealing Our Jobs?

Martín Arboleda explores the new politics of labor and capital on the frontier of transnational resource extraction - as advances in technology and finance transform mining, we need a new framework to understand 21st century capitalism as global form of social mediation, and new theorizations of the state.

Martín is author of "Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine

On living labor and automation in the new planetary extraction zone.

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