Book · 2019 · Political Science
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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And so to break down what this means for the world going forward, we're lucky to be joined by Aaron Basani, who's the co-founder of Navara Media and wrote an excellent book that I really recommend to everyone. Put this up on the screen titled Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
Krystal Ball · Breaking Points · May 2025 Listen at 0:01 What they say about it
- Praise for the title“the best name of any book”3
- Rereads the book“reread and rereading it”2
The best things said about it
I read at the time then I just reread and rereading it.
Krystal Ball Breaking Points · May 2025 It's sort of like a leftist technooptimist view but really is conditioned on you know us having control over the AI and the robots and the technology.
Krystal Ball Breaking Points · May 2025 We are somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book published in the past couple of decades fully automated luxury communism.
Ezra Klein Honestly with Bari Weiss · Mar 2025 We're somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book published in the past couple of decades fully automated luxury communism.
Aaron Bastani wrote a book called Fully Automated Luxury Communism the best of the titles.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Jun 2023 Where and when it comes up
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani is a radical leftist manifesto envisioning a post-scarcity future enabled by automation, renewable energy, and advanced artificial intelligence. The book has sparked significant discussion among political commentators and techno-optimists. On Breaking Points, Crystal Ball enthusiastically recommended the text to viewers, praising its forward-thinking perspective and noting that she had recently reread it to evaluate its techno-optimist thesis regarding human control over technology. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson discussed the book on Honestly with Bari Weiss, noting that its bold title and leftist framework had inspired their own thinking about the future. Meanwhile, Mark Andreessen mentioned the work on The Ben & Marc Show while discussing central planning, and Kristin Godsey referenced Bastani's ideas during an appearance on The Ezra Klein Show to explore futurism literature. Across these appearances, the book is recognized for its provocative title and its ambitious proposition that technological abundance could eventually supersede traditional economic scarcity.
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Krystal Ball And so to break down what this means for the world going forward, we're lucky to be joined by Aaron Basani,… 3
“And so to break down what this means for the world going forward, we're lucky to be joined by Aaron Basani, who's the co-founder of Navara Media and wrote an excellent book that I really recommend to everyone. Put this up on the screen titled Fully Automated Luxury Communism.”
“And then I'm going to speak with Erin Bastani. He wrote the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism several years back which I read at the time then I just reread and rereading it. It's sort of like a leftist technooptimist view but really is conditioned on you know us having control over the AI and the robots and the technology.”
“And then I'm going to speak with Erin Bastani. He wrote the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism several years back which I read at the time then I just reread and rereading it.”
Ezra Klein we are somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book… 2
“we are somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book published in the past couple of decades fully automated luxury communism”
“Aaron bastani wrote a book called fully automated luxury communist the best of the titles”
Derek Thompson we're somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book p… 1
“we're somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book published in the past couple of decades fully automated luxury communism”
Marc Andreessen in various other communist regimes there was always this kind of idea there's actually a book on this from… 1
“in various other communist regimes there was always this kind of idea there's actually a book on this from a from a from a modern communist called fully luxur fully automated luxury communism”
