{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Extrapolate with Rob Hof","title":"Guy Standing: How the System Is Failing the 99%","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3654,"description":"World-renowned labour economist Guy Standing explains how a new class of people – the precariat – is trapped in insecure work, unstable income and chronic anxiety, and why he believes a universal basic income is now essential if we want to save democracy, freedom and basic human dignity.\n\nGuy Standing is a British labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London. He co-founded and is honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), the leading global organisation advocating an unconditional basic income. He coined the term precariat in his influential book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, and has spent decades at the International Labour Organization working on labour markets, social protection, and economic security.\n\nIn this episode, you get a rare inside look at what it’s like to spend your life on the front line of the fight against economic insecurity – advising governments, designing basic-income pilots, and warning about the political risks of leaving millions of people in permanent precarity.\n\nHe explains, among other things:\n◼️ What the precariat actually is – and why so many young graduates, migrants and formerly “secure” workers suddenly find themselves in it\n◼️ How today’s “rentier capitalism” lets owners of assets thrive while wages stagnate, even as people work harder than ever\n◼️ Why he believes an unconditional basic income is no longer a utopian idea but a practical necessity for a stable, innovative society\n◼️ What we can learn from basic-income experiments in places like India and other countries, and what happens to people’s health, motivation and agency when their income is secure \n◼️ The reforms he believes are needed to move from a fearful, divided precariat towards a more democratic, fair and sustainable economy\n\nExplore Guy Standing’s work\n◼️ Books (selection): The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens, Basic Income: And How We Can Make It...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uQRg1dVbp2nredhB-38LkoFxdAc79qEl8Xl62sIjRfw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGRj/YTZmMjY3Y2E4ZmQ0/M2YwNmI4YjE0ODJh/MjYzNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}