When Technology Sets Off a Populist Revolt
[Philip Lelyeld comment - Wow! This is phase 2 of the so-called sharing economy. Now that a few have captured huge chucks of wealth by convincing millions that they are adequately compensated independent contractors, let's protect these 'special' disrupter elites so the general population doesn't rise up against them.]
...how to create the conditions in which a minority of hyperproductive people can do their work.
a new social contract, in which an undisrupted few assume new obligations to the disrupted many, in order to be freed to go back to their disruptive works.
“To put it crudely, it’s bribing the population to be well-enough-off,” Mr. Khosla said. “Otherwise, they’ll work for changing the system.”
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