The Post-Labor Economy
Jaron Lanier says “Between smothering bureaucracy and cruel neglect, there stands only one possibility: a functional middle class.” But how do we maintain it in a world where labor has little value?
It’s going to be enormously hard to even get people to understand the spectrum of possibilities.
The people who need to buy into some new more inspiring vision are mostly stuck in their day to day problems, and just want strategies to see them through the week, not the century.
We must ask people for a lot of thought and a lot of effort and some, probably modest, material sacrifices. We cannot succeed without a positive vision of the future, something that no political party anywhere is offering in any credible way at this time.
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