Abstract

This paper explores universal basic income (UBI) in relation to crisis, from COVID-19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition. Critical debates around automation, wage labour and post-work are brought into conversation with emerging trends in urban political economy around foundational infrastructure, smart cities and platform capitalism. To deliver the socio-economic transformations promised by UBI’s advocates, it is argued that more radical structural interventions in capitalist asset ownership and property relations, alongside democratized state investment in technological development, universal basic services and infrastructure, are necessary counterparts to any sufficient UBI – that is, if we hope to construct new systems of collective coordination capable of contending with complex epidemiological, economic and ecological crises.

摘要

本文探讨了与危机相关的普遍基本收入 (UBI)，从 COVID-19 到技术经济中断、工作和未来的后资本主义转型。围绕自动化、雇佣劳动和后工作的批判性辩论与围绕基础设施、智慧城市和平台资本主义的城市政治经济新兴趋势进行了对话。为了实现 UBI 倡导者所承诺的社会经济转型，有人认为，对资本主义资产所有权和财产关系进行更激进的结构性干预，以及对技术发展、普遍基本服务和基础设施进行民主化的国家投资，是任何充分的 UBI 的必要对应物——也就是说，如果我们希望构建能够应对复杂流行病学的新的集体协调系统，