I'm still super curious and concerned about benefits, in particular healthcare, in all of this. The risk of losing everything due to bad luck or an unforeseen illness is very real and is a massive drag on new ideas being shipped in our country.
It is, and it’s precarious through a series of events that never intended it to deliver health. @Josh Allan Dykstra writes well about this. The term “benefit” takes on a perverse cruelty when you see how it came about. I can’t imagine a resolution that continues to commingle it with the “job” container.
You hilight something interesting about jobs… the US system favors jobs at the tax and admin level. In order to get the most pour of a more fractured, freelance multi income stream for intelectual workers… I really doubt we’ll see policy changes then help this type of work thrive. But the force of what you’re talking about is so great, that people will do it anyway?
I suspect we’ll see innovators create something for this before governance moves. Policy has an institutional clock speed that’s unable to address the velocity of change. That said, I believe jobs will be the defining issue of the midterms, likely beginning in August. @Josh Allan Dykstra has some really solid thinking about the governance component and is a must-follow.
I see what you see—particularly and especially that “hollowing out” part. I have less belief that we will all be okay on the otherside of that without significant shifts in our valuation of emotional labor, which you alluded to—but also our privatization of it. That said, hope is all I personally have at the end of the day, so I will continue to hang onto it as best I can and encourage others to do the same. 💜
Hope launches lots of amazing things. Keeping hope alive when things are dark is deep inner work—a spiritual path. The part that sticks for me and goes against common perception is that there’s really no one in charge. Our market is a system that embeds incentives and operates on the aggregate of people’s responses to those incentives. Seems to me we rarely question the systems and incentives themselves, maybe because individuals are easier to identify.
My hunch on emotional labor is that these (human) systems unintentionally cause us to value it much more. Cognitive labor is trending toward minimal to negative value from humans except in those instances in which knowledge blends with wisdom, discernment, relational skill, intuition, etc. We don’t yet know how to value those things, but my instinct is that we’ll learn really fast.
The dangerous phase may not be mass layoffs. It’s the silent evaporation where 'work' disappears upstream while institutions still think the system is stable.
Most systems react after signal collapse right?
SHシFT asks what changes when intent becomes explicit before optimisation even begins.
I'm still super curious and concerned about benefits, in particular healthcare, in all of this. The risk of losing everything due to bad luck or an unforeseen illness is very real and is a massive drag on new ideas being shipped in our country.
It is, and it’s precarious through a series of events that never intended it to deliver health. @Josh Allan Dykstra writes well about this. The term “benefit” takes on a perverse cruelty when you see how it came about. I can’t imagine a resolution that continues to commingle it with the “job” container.
You hilight something interesting about jobs… the US system favors jobs at the tax and admin level. In order to get the most pour of a more fractured, freelance multi income stream for intelectual workers… I really doubt we’ll see policy changes then help this type of work thrive. But the force of what you’re talking about is so great, that people will do it anyway?
I suspect we’ll see innovators create something for this before governance moves. Policy has an institutional clock speed that’s unable to address the velocity of change. That said, I believe jobs will be the defining issue of the midterms, likely beginning in August. @Josh Allan Dykstra has some really solid thinking about the governance component and is a must-follow.
I see what you see—particularly and especially that “hollowing out” part. I have less belief that we will all be okay on the otherside of that without significant shifts in our valuation of emotional labor, which you alluded to—but also our privatization of it. That said, hope is all I personally have at the end of the day, so I will continue to hang onto it as best I can and encourage others to do the same. 💜
Hope launches lots of amazing things. Keeping hope alive when things are dark is deep inner work—a spiritual path. The part that sticks for me and goes against common perception is that there’s really no one in charge. Our market is a system that embeds incentives and operates on the aggregate of people’s responses to those incentives. Seems to me we rarely question the systems and incentives themselves, maybe because individuals are easier to identify.
My hunch on emotional labor is that these (human) systems unintentionally cause us to value it much more. Cognitive labor is trending toward minimal to negative value from humans except in those instances in which knowledge blends with wisdom, discernment, relational skill, intuition, etc. We don’t yet know how to value those things, but my instinct is that we’ll learn really fast.
Thanks Joseph.
The dangerous phase may not be mass layoffs. It’s the silent evaporation where 'work' disappears upstream while institutions still think the system is stable.
Most systems react after signal collapse right?
SHシFT asks what changes when intent becomes explicit before optimisation even begins.