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 * [https://plus.google.com/s/%23jobsolescence #jobsolescence] posts on G+
 * '''2012-11-21''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-countries-producing-too-few-grads-2012-11 McKinsey Predicts The War For Talent Will Go Nuts By 2020]: if we're producing too few college grads, why do companies insist on hiring college grads? Also, why don't they offer to help pay for college?
 * '''2013-03-30''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/30/ow-an-anti-rentier-agenda-might-bring-liberals-conservatives-together/ How an anti-rentier agenda might bring liberals, conservatives together]
 * '''2013-06-03''' [http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16735-a-better-way-to-tax-the-multinationals A Better Way to Tax the Multinationals]

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	* '''2013-01-26''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/RKpy2Dij1oC Jobsolescence on ''60 Minutes'']		* '''2013-01-26''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/RKpy2Dij1oC Jobsolescence on ''60 Minutes'']
	* '''2013-05-23''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/crxFe6T6TNs Rising "disability" claims are another consequence of #jobsolescence.]		* '''2013-05-23''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/crxFe6T6TNs Rising "disability" claims are another consequence of #jobsolescence.]
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		+	* '''2013-07-08''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/112224011593759485232/posts/M5keDdGywGD a commenter objects to redistribution]

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 * '''2013-06-06''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-disruptive-technology-report-2013-6 12 Technologies That Are Improving At Insane Speeds]
 * '''2013-06-12''' [http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-new-book-offers-a-new-american-revolution Solidarity Economy: The Next American Revolution?]: book review of ''What Then Must We Do?'' by [[Gar Alperovitz]]
 ===Woozle posts===
 * '''2012-09-13''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/JKJSiko5c8Y increased efficiency in big business always means creating more economic output with fewer people]
 * '''2013-01-26''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/RKpy2Dij1oC Jobsolescence on ''60 Minutes'']
 * '''2013-05-23''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/crxFe6T6TNs Rising "disability" claims are another consequence of #jobsolescence.]

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 * [https://plus.google.com/s/%23jobsolescence #jobsolescence] posts on G+
 * '''2012-11-21''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-countries-producing-too-few-grads-2012-11 McKinsey Predicts The War For Talent Will Go Nuts By 2020]: if we're producing too few college grads, why do companies insist on hiring college grads? Also, why don't they offer to help pay for college?
 * '''2013-06-03''' [http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16735-a-better-way-to-tax-the-multinationals A Better Way to Tax the Multinationals]
 * '''2013-06-06''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-disruptive-technology-report-2013-6 12 Technologies That Are Improving At Insane Speeds]

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 * '''2013-06-03''' [http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16735-a-better-way-to-tax-the-multinationals A Better Way to Tax the Multinationals]
 * '''2013-06-06''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-disruptive-technology-report-2013-6 12 Technologies That Are Improving At Insane Speeds]
 ===Woozle posts===
 * '''2012-09-13''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/JKJSiko5c8Y increased efficiency in big business always means creating more economic output with fewer people]
 * '''2013-01-26''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/RKpy2Dij1oC Jobsolescence on ''60 Minutes'']
 * '''2013-05-23''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/crxFe6T6TNs Rising "disability" claims are another consequence of #jobsolescence.]

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 '''Jobsolescence: why chronic unemployment is the new normal, and what to do about it'''
 ==Outline==
 * Introduction
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 * New Models and How to Build Them
 ** The Value Ethic
 ** Fair Share
 ** Corporate Rehabilitation
-** Copying Things
+** Copying Things: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
 * Jobsolescence and the Free Market
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 Perhaps more importantly, the results of the new work tend to be the sort of thing that is easily copied, easily transported -- writing, music, blueprints, software. I'll discuss the effects of this change in more detail in another chapter (Copying Things) -- but suffice it to say that the obstacle is no longer copying and distribution; one person, acting alone, can write and distribute works that can help or entertain millions of people.
 ===Fair Share===
 The public revenue-share has been declining for many decades, but we didn't really notice it -- because ''overall wealth'' was increasing, and a smaller share of a larger pie still looks pretty good -- until significant numbers of people started finding themselves abruptly kicked out of the walled city.
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 This is an awkward solution at best. A better solution would be one which more closely modeled our basic ethics as civilized humans: everyone should be taken care of to the extent that we can afford to do so
 ===Corporate Rehabilitation===
-===Copying Things===
+===Copying Things: The Sincerest Form of Flattery===
 In one way, individuals now have far more power to do good than at any previous time in history.
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 As the technical barriers to copying and distribution have crumbled -- the cost going from a matter of dollars per copy (for a book or record) to pennies or even fractions of a penny{{l/foot|1}} -- and it has become easier for individuals to copy without the help of large businesses with expensive equipment, those whose business models were built around "copyright" have felt compelled to place artificial barriers against copying. A large business can much more easily be held accountable for selling copies of a work than an individual can be held accountable for giving away copies.
 ==Jobsolescence and the Free Market==
 The phrase "free market" actually has two possible meanings: free-as-in-unconstrained and free-as-in-choice. A free-unconstrained market is one in which no external coercion is applied to anyone within the market; a free-choice market is one in which all participants not only have multiple options in any given transaction, but have no constraints on which options they can choose.

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 ==Outline==
 * Introduction
-* How We Got Here
+* The Current Situation
-* The Employment Ethic
+** How We Got Here
-* The Value Ethic
+** Surreal Economic Disparity
 * New Models and How to Build Them
 ** Fair Share
 ** Corporate Rehabilitation
 ** Copying Things
-* A Word to the Establishment
+* Jobsolescence and the Free Market
 ==Introduction==
-As automation increases efficiency, fewer people are needed to create the same wealth -- which would be good, except that the owners of the resources have been gaining all the benefit -- and have become increasingly stingy about sharing it, even as it accumulates.
+[[File:Screen shot 2013-04-11 at 9.58.53 am.png|300px|thumb|Total wages as a portion of GDP have fallen steadily since the 1950s.]]
 We are faced now with chronic unemployment in all areas of society -- but what most people don't seem to realize is that "unemployment" isn't the problem; economic inequity is the problem.
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 We need new ways of allocating society's core wealth, and we need new guiding ethics by which people can gauge the value of their contributions to it. People are too many, employment opportunities too few, and basic resources too plentiful for society to insist that a decent living must require hard work.
-==How We Got Here==
+==The Current Situation==
 When most people could find jobs earning a living wage, the general tendency for wealth to concentrate in the hands of the factory owners was far better counteracted by the need to hire employees to run those factories.
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 They ultimately solved the problem by creating more things to spend money on, thus expanding the "owner" class. They also discovered ways to convince people to buy more of what they were already buying, and to believe they needed things that they didn't really need -- and thus the commercial propaganda industry (also known as "advertising") was born, creating yet more employment without ceding the least bit of control over the essential machinery of production.
-==The Employment Ethic==
+===Surreal Economic Disparity===
 As difficult as it will be for many people to accept the need to reorganize society, it will be much more difficult for some to accept the end of the employment ethic.
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 As labor shifted from being primarily agricultural to factory work to being primarily service-oriented, the work ethic shifted from physical outdoor labor to include whatever brought in a regular income -- even though the actual work involved was not, in many cases, actually helping to create wealth (i.e. feed, clothe, or house anyone); the mere fact of ''being paid'' became the badge of legitimacy.
-==The Value Ethic==
+==New Models and How to Build Them==
 When people were scarce and opportunities for work were everywhere, it made sense for the ethic to say "don't come to me looking for handouts -- go do some work! Get a job!"
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 Perhaps more importantly, the results of the new work tend to be the sort of thing that is easily copied, easily transported -- writing, music, blueprints, software. I'll discuss the effects of this change in more detail in another chapter (Copying Things) -- but suffice it to say that the obstacle is no longer copying and distribution; one person, acting alone, can write and distribute works that can help or entertain millions of people.
-==Copying Things==
+Clearly this is a problem, but so far the only solution that has been anywhere near the table is the idea that the government needs to take care of the unemployed -- although not ''all'' of the unemployed, and not ''indefinitely,'' because of the usual corporate propaganda encouraging everyone to think that unemployment is basically sinful -- something that people gravitate towards unless deterred by punishment, and something that anyone can avoid if they just try.
 Things like writing, music, blueprints, and software used to be much harder to copy, requiring the expenditure of physical supplies (paper, vinyl) and physical transportation to distribute. It made sense to say that the creator should receive some share of the final sale price, as this would help pay for their labor in creating it and allow a talented creator to devote more time to creating additional works, thus benefiting society even more.
-I'll refer to this model as "copyright".
+I'll refer to this model as "copyright", though it also includes patents.
 As the technical barriers to copying and distribution have crumbled -- the cost going from a matter of dollars per copy (for a book or record) to pennies or even fractions of a penny{{l/foot|1}} -- and it has become easier for individuals to copy without the help of large businesses with expensive equipment, those whose business models were built around "copyright" have felt compelled to place artificial barriers against copying. A large business can much more easily be held accountable for selling copies of a work than an individual can be held accountable for giving away copies.
 ==Discarded bits==
 The American economy did eventually recover from the 2007 crash, but unemployment stayed high.
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 * '''2012-06''' [http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.html Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?] (TED Talk)
 ** [http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=EMRATIO Graph: Civilian Employment-Population Ratio (EMRATIO)]
 * '''2013-05-02''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/05/02/bipartisan-push-to-buy-tanks-army-doesnt-need/ Bipartisan Push to Buy Tanks Army Doesn’t Need]: If Congress thinks we can afford this kind of waste, why not use that money to pay for social infrastructure?
 * '''2013-05-03''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/sunday-review/the-idled-young-americans.html?_r=1& The Idled Young Americans] "The problems start with a lack of jobs."
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 * '''2013-05-05''' [http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2013/05/05/over-55-out-of-work-more-than-six-months-headhunters-say-youre-screwed/ Over 55, out of work more than six months? Headhunters say you’re screwed.]
 ** commentary: [https://plus.google.com/105502506545735279423/posts/6ydxuTH62LQ Pam Spaulding]
 ===Woozle posts===
 * '''2012-09-13''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/JKJSiko5c8Y increased efficiency in big business always means creating more economic output with fewer people]
 * '''2013-01-26''' [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/RKpy2Dij1oC Jobsolescence on ''60 Minutes'']
 * '''2013-05-23''' [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/crxFe6T6TNs Rising "disability" claims are another consequence of #jobsolescence.]