1 The "Thought Leaders" of tech are relative newcomers to the advocacy of a basic income guarantee. (I've advocated it for many years.)
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20152 It is crucial to recognize that their advocacy of basic income is shaped by the rhetorical pathologies of their discourse more generally.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20153 Tech arguments for basic income are preceded by tech diagnoses of the problem they address & usually their case is reductive at both ends.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20154 We are told that "automation" "yields" unemployment, "resulting in" poverty to be "addressed" by basic income.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20155 A prior reductive characterization of *automation* shaped by a figuration of technodevelopment as autonomous and deterministic…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20156 …sustains the legibility and intuitive force of a comparably reductive construal of basic income as a *policy technofix.*
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20157 In fact, automation *without labor organization and progressive taxation* facilitates wealth concentration.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20158 Even so concise a formulation undermines the appealing monocausality of typical tech discourse on this (as so many) political topic.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 20159 Universal basic income should function as a permanent strike fund, treating collective bargaining as a public investment in democracy.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201510 It is worth noting that the resulting upward pressure on wages would spur further automation of dangerous and unsatisfying work.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201511 Progressive taxation is likewise a public investment in democracy, maintaining the material and ritual affordances of equity-in-diversity
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201512 …but also providing a check on anti-democratizing concentrations of influence in incumbent-elite stakeholders.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201513 Wealth concentration by elite-incumbency subsidizes their organized capture of democratic affordances by at once…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201514 privatizing public investment in democracy's material commonwealth and alienating public participation in democracy's ritual commonsense.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201515 Once so captured, even a universal basic income could scarcely be counted upon to ensure the equitable investment of citizens…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201516 in the democratic scene of informed nonduressed consent, but would transform into the provision of bare life sustaining techno-feudalism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201517 That so many tech advocates already explicitly tie their basic income technofix to the dismantlement of general welfare…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201518 appealing to right wing narratives of liberty/efficiency/dependency and so on, is the fully predictable result of their reductionism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201519 Tech talk&VC subcultures notoriously misread precarity as liberty, privatization as disruption, PR as innovation, upward failure as risk.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201520 Just as the vantage of white supremacy is rendered illegible by intersectionality and the vantage of imperialism by multilateralism…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 201521 …so too the corporate-militarist vantage of plutocratic tech is rendered illegible by anti-reductionist accounts of technodevelopement.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 25, 2015
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