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2020-09-04

Finland Is Rallying Around a Six-Hour Workday — And So Should We

Finland’s social-democratic prime minister, Sanna Marin, has called for a six-hour workday without loss of pay, allowing Finns more free time and a fairer distribution of employment. As the pandemic forces us to reassess how working life is organized, we should take up labor’s historic call for a shorter workday. It’s often hard to shake […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Future of Political-Economy, Future of Work, Value of community, Value of family, Value of Leisure, Value of time, Value of work, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-01-25

Yuval Harari’s blistering warning to Davos

Old jobs will disappear, new jobs will emerge, but then the new jobs will rapidly change and vanish. Whereas in the past human had to struggle against exploitation, in the twenty-first century the really big struggle will be against irrelevance. And it is much worse to be irrelevant than exploited. Whenever a leader says something […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Existential Threats, Future of AI, Future of Political Economics, Future of Work, Future Threats, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-09-30

Work as forming the future, work as art

What if we left behind the mirror metaphor in trying to make sense of the world? What if we closed our eyes for a moment and began to imagine what does not yet exist? What kind of a world we would really want to create? It would mean an approach to sense making in which […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Co-creation, Creating Value, Digital Environment, Future of community, Future of Economy, Future of Learning, Future of Work, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-01-20

The Agenbite of Outwit

Evidently written in 1963, a year before McLuhan was to publish The Medium is the Message, this important article brings together in one place a number of the ideas that would appear in his most important book a year later: technology as human extensions, the Narcissus myth, psychic numbness that derives from our extensions, our unawareness […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Change in Conditions of Change, Collective Consciousness, Consciousness, Crisis of Consciousness, culture, Digital Environment, Future of Work, Global Consciousness, McLuhan, Technological Extensions, technology, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-08-08

Too Much of the Economy is Powerless

” We define market power as “the ability to skew market outcomes in one’s own interest, without creating value or serving the public good.” ECONOMIC INCLUSIONECONOMY & GROWTH By Marshall Steinbaum Today, the Roosevelt Institute released Powerless: How Lax Antitrust and Concentrated Market Power Rig the Economy Against American Workers, Consumers, and Communities, a report I wrote […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Economic Paradigms, Future of Political-Economy, Future of Work, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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