I enjoy Stirling, even though he can be a complex read, because we see things the same way. I’ve seen companies fail because they refused to embrace the idea of quality and continuous improvement – now I’m watching the entire country fail for the same reason, because we’ve refused to do things better and only want to do things cheaper and make more money. But, Stirling writes it all way better than I do, so go read….
The Other Future – The Smirking Chimp
It is an opportune moment because it is time to dream again. I was recently flamed by a moderately distinguished elder economist for not being realistic about the future. I will leave aside both the flame and the historically bungled arguments he made about the past, and take on the future. The future of work and of a decent society is not in the government taxing corporations to spread the misfortune out a bit more thinly, but in a society which has dedicated itself to a continuous improvement in the quality of how we do everything. Either we will do this, or we will not make it through the era that is coming. Already there are going to be high costs in life and suffering for our failure to awaken early enough to the unsustainability of our predicament, costs which can not be avoided, and will only be ameliorated in limited ways…
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