good remarks for the horses. maybe the salarymen are like horses.... but we are not only the horses, we are the rider too.
don't steal the job of robots. the problem is to find a way to make people have access to the product and services the robots produces. some say basic income... I propose simply a capitalist version of the agrarian reform, when you deconcentrate the capital of big farmers for every people to have a share that it can make a living of... Uber, e-bay, airbnb, blablacar, are the kind of platform to allow small capitalist to be competitive facing big corps... simplification of regulation would support it too. some says that current system basedon salary and big state is a contract between big capitallist who proposed to politicians to give social peace by employing people, in exchange of protection of their economic rent agains competitors and especially agains independent entrepreneurs... this explain both that social protection is based mostly on worker status, and that regulation is increasing, needing bigger and bigger corps to respect them while staying efficient. this system is maybe ending, letting a general system of networked entrepreneurs like what I see in Indonesian "kampung" (city district, villages...) where all service are paid, nothing is free, but the money circulate much between the poorer and the richer, inside the kampung. cars, moped, parking place, rooms, shop front pavement are capital that are well exploited and subcontracted too... maybe one days people will make their living, getting money for leisure and luxury, by managing 3D printers, cloud creative sofftwares, taxi bots , as people were managing their piece of field, their fishing boat, their B&B pension... with a busy day, working for their clients, not for a boss. 2014-08-29 21:51 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > Here is a good video about automation and employment: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU > > Some good quotes: after the Model T, people did not say: "There will be > new jobs for horses we can't imagine!" There is not a rule that says, > "better technology makes more better jobs for horses." > > - Jed > >
