Thread by @doctorow

Last summer, I recorded a two-part interview with the @MMTpodcast, discussing how my activism and science fiction intersect with #ModernMonetaryTheory, a lens for understanding the role of money in our economies:

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I was delighted to be invited back on to talk about the novel I'm writing, "The Lost Cause," in which MMT has enabled a just climate transition to a Green New Deal, but without getting rid of reactionary elements who stood in its way.

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The episode is just out and it's awfully fun and funny, and we talk about a lecture I'm planning to give to a World Economic Forum AI workshop on why I think technological unemployment is a distraction.

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The climate emergency will demand full employment for all of us and our children and their children for hundreds of years, doing things like relocating every coastal city in the world several kilometers inland.

That's just for starters.

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Keynes once proposed a thought experiment for kickstarting a moribund economy by paying half of the unemployed workers to dig holes and the other half to fill them in.

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We spent 150 years subsidizing our ancestors to dig up fossil fuels, and now we have to pay our descendants to spend 200-300 years getting them back into the ground.

Image: Molly Crabapple/The Intercept


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