[Music]
so when I hear about the future of work
I hear a lot of worry about jobs makes
sense right we see a lot of statistics
like this one 50% of all the activities
that people do at workplaces today could
be automated with technology we already
have so what does that mean about where
we’re going but you know we’re worried
about the truck drivers we’re worried
about the bank tellers here’s a new one
you can now be worried about baristas
this is an automated coffee shop in a
mall in San Francisco but here’s the
thing I think that we are already seeing
a lot of impacts on jobs changing jobs
that make it so that Americans aren’t
keeping up with where they need to be
anyway right if you look at this graph
you can see that while productivity has
gone up over the last 30 years GDP our
collective wealth has continued to go up
incomes a flatlined right Americans
aren’t keeping up with what’s going on
and when you think about what we were
promised with jobs you can see the same
thing right it used to be you could get
a job be promised a 401k promise health
care for you and your family maybe even
a pension you knew that every year you’d
get a raise and if you stayed in that
job long term you could move up the
ladder but I think that one of the
impacts that technology is having on our
workplaces is that they’re no longer
communities they’re becoming
transactional right we’re continuing to
exchange small amounts of Labor for
small amounts of cash so think about it
this way when I am taking a lift
I’m raiding my driver every time I
finish a ride right and that makes sense
they want to make sure that they know
lyft wants to make sure they know how my
experience is you know did my driver do
a good job it’s basic customer service
but I think that this is actually
changing the way that we think about our
relationships with each other
more broadly right our relationships are
becoming more trans
action all with our workplaces if you
look at the new options that lyft
provides for ratings now I’m not just
rating my drivers as I tip them I’m also
telling lyft whether my driver was a
good driver
do they have a clean car did we have a
fun conversation so I’m starting to tip
my drivers based on the value of the
conversation that we had ok so it starts
with rating drivers on conversations now
but at what point do we get to the point
where we’re rating people based on every
interaction that we have ok so that’s
where we are today we’re rating folks
this is the trend so what does that mean
for the future of work Domesday prepping
I’m serious ok so we’re gonna spend the
next six minutes so we have together
I’ve got a prepping 101 slide from the
prepper Journal I’ve want to introduce
you to the survivalist mom she’s got an
excellent blog good for prepper kids and
there’s even a show on National
Geographic called Doomsday Preppers yes
I see we have some fans ok so I actually
can’t teach you everything there is to
know about prepping in the next 6
minutes but I bring up Preppers because
I actually think that this is the future
of our transactional relationships
Preppers are transactional relationships
taken to the extreme so if you’re not
familiar with Doomsday Preppers
essentially they’re a community of folks
who are preparing for apocalypse that
could be climate disaster or an EMP
attack or zombies obviously right and
the plan is to prepare for the future by
building skills so you need to take a
carpentry class or you need to learn
food preservation techniques so you can
join a proper community for safety but
the thing is joining these prepper
groups is like a job interview ok
they’re not going to let you in unless
you have a skill that they need so
according to Preppers the future of work
is making sure that you have skills that
you can trade for security the problem
is that I think that when we talk about
skills and
Mayson and technology instead of talking
about the future of work we’re actually
talking about the future of jobs okay so
what is the point of a job a job gives
me Economic Security financial stability
right if I have a full-time job I want
to make sure I can pay my bills and make
sure that I can relieve myself of
anxiety about my financial future but
let me ask you this what is your life’s
work is your life’s work different from
your job are there people who do
valuable work that don’t get paid for it
you know I think about my mom when I
asked this question all right my mom
stayed at home for all of my childhood
to take care of me and my brother trust
me when I say was a lot of work now
she’s a realtor right but she still
takes care of my grandma who lives at
home as well is the only valuable work
that she’s doing at her job as a Realtor
think about volunteers so I started my
career in Atlanta as a grassroots
organizer and all of the in-person
outreach that my campaign did was
dependent on volunteers people who
wanted to build a community with other
people who cared about the same issues
and wanted to see the same kind of
change that they did we can talk about
arts and culture entrepreneurship that’s
really important TED talk I’m giving you
right now you know much of the work the
scope of valuable work is much broader
than the scope of paid jobs so I think
that Preppers are actually talking and
planning for the future of jobs if we
want to plan for the future of work what
does that make us so I want to invite
you to join me as an intentional
optimist and I’ll tell you the
difference between Preppers Doomsday
Preppers
and intentional optimists Preppers look
at the future and believe that we have
control over individuals while we as
intentional optimists know that we can
shape
our collective future so if that’s what
we’re thinking about we’re thinking
about how things are changing we’re
trying to make sure that people have
control over their future and they can
do meaningful work while having Economic
Security what’s our plan universal basic
income is a federal program that’s
designed to guarantee Economic Security
so basic income is a structure that we
as Americans can create to ensure that
people can take care of their basic
needs it’s very simple essentially we
can use this collective abundance that
we have this collective wealth to ensure
that every American gets a check every
month to make sure they can pay for the
basics so imagine this you your friends
your parents your siblings having the
security to know that every month no
matter what you’ll get a check let’s say
it’s $1,500 to make sure you can pay for
those basics that need to be taken care
of imagine the opportunities that that
would open up now basic income isn’t
meant to be a substitute for work or for
jobs not at all right basic income gives
us the security the stability and the
freedom to choose what we’re doing with
our time think of it as a platform basic
income provides Americans with the
Economic Security to weather transitions
and times of change while also giving us
all the peace of mind that far a few too
few of us have basic income gives us the
chance to walk away from bad jobs it
gives us the chance to fight for better
ones and it gives us the option to
choose to spend our time on work that is
valuable basic income recognizes our
right to dignity without asking us to
prove our own worth so here’s what I
want to leave you with work is about the
collective
while jobs are about the individual the
future of work is about us it’s about
our relationships to each other and the
world jobs are a means of supporting
ourselves as we get there preppers will
convince you that the only control that
you have over the future is individual
right you better take that hunting class
and hope that you can find a group that
will let you join I’m hoping instead
that you’ll join me as an intentional
optimist we have control over the
structures that shape the future and
there’s no doubt that we are stronger
together so let’s fight for the future
of work with universal basic income
thank you [Applause]
so when I hear about the future of work
I hear a lot of worry about jobs makes
sense right we see a lot of statistics
like this one 50% of all the activities
that people do at workplaces today could
be automated with technology we already
have so what does that mean about where
we’re going but you know we’re worried
about the truck drivers we’re worried
about the bank tellers here’s a new one
you can now be worried about baristas
this is an automated coffee shop in a
mall in San Francisco but here’s the
thing I think that we are already seeing
a lot of impacts on jobs changing jobs
that make it so that Americans aren’t
keeping up with where they need to be
anyway right if you look at this graph
you can see that while productivity has
gone up over the last 30 years GDP our
collective wealth has continued to go up
incomes a flatlined right Americans
aren’t keeping up with what’s going on
and when you think about what we were
promised with jobs you can see the same
thing right it used to be you could get
a job be promised a 401k promise health
care for you and your family maybe even
a pension you knew that every year you’d
get a raise and if you stayed in that
job long term you could move up the
ladder but I think that one of the
impacts that technology is having on our
workplaces is that they’re no longer
communities they’re becoming
transactional right we’re continuing to
exchange small amounts of Labor for
small amounts of cash so think about it
this way when I am taking a lift
I’m raiding my driver every time I
finish a ride right and that makes sense
they want to make sure that they know
lyft wants to make sure they know how my
experience is you know did my driver do
a good job it’s basic customer service
but I think that this is actually
changing the way that we think about our
relationships with each other
more broadly right our relationships are
becoming more trans
action all with our workplaces if you
look at the new options that lyft
provides for ratings now I’m not just
rating my drivers as I tip them I’m also
telling lyft whether my driver was a
good driver
do they have a clean car did we have a
fun conversation so I’m starting to tip
my drivers based on the value of the
conversation that we had ok so it starts
with rating drivers on conversations now
but at what point do we get to the point
where we’re rating people based on every
interaction that we have ok so that’s
where we are today we’re rating folks
this is the trend so what does that mean
for the future of work Domesday prepping
I’m serious ok so we’re gonna spend the
next six minutes so we have together
I’ve got a prepping 101 slide from the
prepper Journal I’ve want to introduce
you to the survivalist mom she’s got an
excellent blog good for prepper kids and
there’s even a show on National
Geographic called Doomsday Preppers yes
I see we have some fans ok so I actually
can’t teach you everything there is to
know about prepping in the next 6
minutes but I bring up Preppers because
I actually think that this is the future
of our transactional relationships
Preppers are transactional relationships
taken to the extreme so if you’re not
familiar with Doomsday Preppers
essentially they’re a community of folks
who are preparing for apocalypse that
could be climate disaster or an EMP
attack or zombies obviously right and
the plan is to prepare for the future by
building skills so you need to take a
carpentry class or you need to learn
food preservation techniques so you can
join a proper community for safety but
the thing is joining these prepper
groups is like a job interview ok
they’re not going to let you in unless
you have a skill that they need so
according to Preppers the future of work
is making sure that you have skills that
you can trade for security the problem
is that I think that when we talk about
skills and
Mayson and technology instead of talking
about the future of work we’re actually
talking about the future of jobs okay so
what is the point of a job a job gives
me Economic Security financial stability
right if I have a full-time job I want
to make sure I can pay my bills and make
sure that I can relieve myself of
anxiety about my financial future but
let me ask you this what is your life’s
work is your life’s work different from
your job are there people who do
valuable work that don’t get paid for it
you know I think about my mom when I
asked this question all right my mom
stayed at home for all of my childhood
to take care of me and my brother trust
me when I say was a lot of work now
she’s a realtor right but she still
takes care of my grandma who lives at
home as well is the only valuable work
that she’s doing at her job as a Realtor
think about volunteers so I started my
career in Atlanta as a grassroots
organizer and all of the in-person
outreach that my campaign did was
dependent on volunteers people who
wanted to build a community with other
people who cared about the same issues
and wanted to see the same kind of
change that they did we can talk about
arts and culture entrepreneurship that’s
really important TED talk I’m giving you
right now you know much of the work the
scope of valuable work is much broader
than the scope of paid jobs so I think
that Preppers are actually talking and
planning for the future of jobs if we
want to plan for the future of work what
does that make us so I want to invite
you to join me as an intentional
optimist and I’ll tell you the
difference between Preppers Doomsday
Preppers
and intentional optimists Preppers look
at the future and believe that we have
control over individuals while we as
intentional optimists know that we can
shape
our collective future so if that’s what
we’re thinking about we’re thinking
about how things are changing we’re
trying to make sure that people have
control over their future and they can
do meaningful work while having Economic
Security what’s our plan universal basic
income is a federal program that’s
designed to guarantee Economic Security
so basic income is a structure that we
as Americans can create to ensure that
people can take care of their basic
needs it’s very simple essentially we
can use this collective abundance that
we have this collective wealth to ensure
that every American gets a check every
month to make sure they can pay for the
basics so imagine this you your friends
your parents your siblings having the
security to know that every month no
matter what you’ll get a check let’s say
it’s $1,500 to make sure you can pay for
those basics that need to be taken care
of imagine the opportunities that that
would open up now basic income isn’t
meant to be a substitute for work or for
jobs not at all right basic income gives
us the security the stability and the
freedom to choose what we’re doing with
our time think of it as a platform basic
income provides Americans with the
Economic Security to weather transitions
and times of change while also giving us
all the peace of mind that far a few too
few of us have basic income gives us the
chance to walk away from bad jobs it
gives us the chance to fight for better
ones and it gives us the option to
choose to spend our time on work that is
valuable basic income recognizes our
right to dignity without asking us to
prove our own worth so here’s what I
want to leave you with work is about the
collective
while jobs are about the individual the
future of work is about us it’s about
our relationships to each other and the
world jobs are a means of supporting
ourselves as we get there preppers will
convince you that the only control that
you have over the future is individual
right you better take that hunting class
and hope that you can find a group that
will let you join I’m hoping instead
that you’ll join me as an intentional
optimist we have control over the
structures that shape the future and
there’s no doubt that we are stronger
together so let’s fight for the future
of work with universal basic income
thank you [Applause]
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