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Articles about Post-work society from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.
On the Moonshots panel, Alex argued that China's AI loyalty perks are the start of "universal basic tokens" — redistributed access to machine intelligence — while another panelist countered that cheaper tokens will mean bigger bills, not free ones. Emad Mostaque pushed past access to ownership, proposing 100 million publicly underwritten robots owned by the people, and Alex said that sounded like communism.
On the Moonshots panel, Emad Mostaque presented what he calls a Champion: a locally owned intelligence utility, sold to residents at a symbolic $1 pre-money valuation before outside investors arrive, with 10% of the equity set aside in perpetuity for every child under 20. He borrows the structure from his account of how TSMC was capitalized, and argues that as the cost of intelligence falls, the money will sit in robots, deployment engineers and citizen agents. He calls it an idea, not an offering — and it leaves governance, dilution and distribution unsettled.
On The Diary of a CEO, the host describes a test he ran a couple of years ago: an episode of a founder-history show in which AI wrote the script and synthesized his voice, labelled as AI at the top. He says 40 to 50% of the audience reached the end of the hour. His conclusion is not that podcasting ends, but that the purely informational part of it is substitutable — and that coffee shops, workout classes, concerts and dinners gain a premium because people are there.
On The Diary of a CEO, economist Steve Keen and commentator Konstantin Kisin agreed that machine production would not by itself give ordinary people an income — and then disagreed about where that income would come from. Keen argued only government money creation could supply it; Kisin, who says his anti-communist credentials are well established, said redistribution becomes unavoidable once AI does the work.