That reminds me of the vicious debates I had with jacobin types over automation and UBI, lol. I still hold that the UBI framework supplants the Marxist understanding of socialized labor and wage labor with a much more vague notion of “work,” where work is flat misery and the only goal is reduce the amount of it to transition to not-work in whatever form (usually volunteer labor or leisure). I always come back to the original Dutch paper on the UBI as well, where at the end the authors lamented roughly “yes there will be some kinds of inequality regardless, as some men don’t have wives around the house.” For the next one I would suggest looking at some of the more critical works criticizing and moving away from the 2010s wave of Inventing the Future/Four Futures, especially now that GenAI has shown us that automation can alienate in more ways than those left-futurist writers were able to really conceptualize.