Important and insightful Pete. I'm very concerned about the exacerbation of wealth concentration. You can see a steady evolution as tellers were replaced by ATM's, cashiers replaced by automated checkout, skilled manufacturing labor was replaced by factory automation (and of course shifting to low-cost labor with few health/safety and labor protections. Now a significant amount of non-union labor can soon be readily displaced without the necessary changes in economic policy.
As someone who could not make it and feels like a kid with his nose pressed against the glass of this amazing technological revolution, I really appreciate this update.
There will be more to come in the Extended Quotes piece out Thursday and the Video Clips next week. There's only so much you can cover even in a 5000 word piece like this. As you point out, a lot was going on in our 2 hour program. In this essay I just do my subjective top-line takeaways.
Important and insightful Pete. I'm very concerned about the exacerbation of wealth concentration. You can see a steady evolution as tellers were replaced by ATM's, cashiers replaced by automated checkout, skilled manufacturing labor was replaced by factory automation (and of course shifting to low-cost labor with few health/safety and labor protections. Now a significant amount of non-union labor can soon be readily displaced without the necessary changes in economic policy.
As someone who could not make it and feels like a kid with his nose pressed against the glass of this amazing technological revolution, I really appreciate this update.
This is a surprisingly incomplete take on what actually happened that evening.
There will be more to come in the Extended Quotes piece out Thursday and the Video Clips next week. There's only so much you can cover even in a 5000 word piece like this. As you point out, a lot was going on in our 2 hour program. In this essay I just do my subjective top-line takeaways.