PLANET OF THE ROBOTS: Four Futures of Automation (Documentary) | 1Dime

A mini documentary about four possible futures after capitalism in a world of automation and climate change. This video is part of a collaboration with JT from Second Thought. Check out their video after this! The production of this video was made possible entirely by Patrons. Become a Patron if you want to make ambitious projects like this possible! Patreon: Buy Me a Coffee: Twitter: Check out my podcast 1Dime Radio (on all podcast platforms) Automation under capitalism or Automation under socialism? The differences would be life changing and could manifest in various ways. How could automation impact our lives? Who will own the robots? In this video we explore four possible futures. However, these futures could intersect and we may not just get one of them, as some of the futures are highly related to each other and are already relevant to capitalist societies today. This video analyzes the relationship between automation, post-scarcity, climate change, and political economy using Peter Frase’s book titled “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism“ among other works. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 2:15 Automation and Climate Change 7:30 Resource Scarcity vs Post-Scarcity 8:54 Exteriminism: Hierarchy with Scarcity 12:56 Rentism: Hierarchy with Abundance 18:52 Socialism: Egalitarianism with Scarcity 23:46 Communism: Egalitarianism with Abundance Credits: Written, Narrated, and Directed by 1Dime Edited by Biodegradable (@BiodeEditable on Twitter) Thumbnail by Stafoh (@Stafoh on Twitter) Music by: Electrosoul System (intro), LML, Rogue State Jaybee (second song), Inertia (Third song), White Bat Audio/Karl Casey (The rest of the songs until the outro), and Astrophysics (outro song). Sources and Further Reading: Books: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase : Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek The Robots Are Coming! The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation by Andrés Oppenheimer The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin AI Superpowers by Kai Fu Lee Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Articles: Frey, Carl Benedikt, and Michael A. Osborne. “The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?.“ Technological forecasting and social change (2017) Check out more 1Dime content: Best 1Dime videos: 1Dime Podcast: About 1Dime (not One Dime): 1Dime is an educational channel dedicated to countering one dimensional thought by analyzing socio-political issues through the lens of theory, history, pop culture, and political economy.