Gilding on ‘the Great Disruption’ at REneweconomy
February 24, 2017
Post Carbon Fellow Paul Gilding’s article on what Donald Trump’s election means in terms of the Great Disruption was published at REneweconomy.
From the article:
READ FULL ARTICLEIsn’t this all a bit scary? Don’t we now face a period of extreme upheaval and risk? Yes, but in case you hadn’t noticed, we already are. Ask a Syrian climate refugee trying to get into Europe. Observe theterrifying trends at our melting ice caps. Talk to a disaffected, scared, unemployed factory worker in middle America who sees no prospects for themselves and their kids. The system is breaking down.
Stable working conditions were available up to the eighteenth century. Then machinery and automation began, Then soon after stable traditional jobs began to disappear and were coincidentally replaced by jobs supporting the new industries around machinery and automation. This process has kept accelerating in more and more areas.Now finance in its many forms and service industries are becoming automated. And this will keep accelerating into many areas wher people used to do the heavy lifting to be replaced by newer methods. It is the way of the future. Become flexible or be pushed out completely.
One more reason why I should have no qualms about getting a LENR power generator. Or anything else that is “disruptive” to the previous order of available work. It is just the way things are. And there will be more of this as time goes on.