# Why Everyone Needs Free Money Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/why-everyone-needs-free-money Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/why-everyone-needs-free-money.md Podcast: [Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217) Published: 2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://freestatepodcast.com Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/641338125bde790011089c5b/e/69fbc86ba3c5770dc9f54856/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/episodes/why-everyone-needs-free-money Duration seconds: 3016 ## Resource More than 60 per cent of Irish jobs are in positions highly exposed to the threat from AI. So what do we do in the face of this threat? Give everyone free money. On Free State today we look at universal basic income and how it could transform lives. How does it work and why would it be profound? And why does the opposition to this sound like the opposition to every other great transformations in society?   On Free State today we explain why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/episodes/why-everyone-needs-free-money/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/why-everyone-needs-free-money.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.