“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” — William Gibson
Gibson, a science fiction writer, is right. The “future”— the automated, integrated, global economy — now unevenly distributes advantages and disadvantages. Those with power and wealth have benefited to a disproportionate extent. Americans who started with less wealth and less power are often burdened by the changes and reap fewer benefits.
To some extent this tale of the haves and have-nots has always been the case (think the emperors of Rome, Louis XIV, and the aristocracies of the Old World). But historically, America was different. It […]
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