Tag: jobs
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Why Automation Multiplies the Workforce and Then Moves It Somewhere With Cheaper Electricity A robot is not a worker. It is a capital good with a power cord, and the cord is the part that determines where it gets plugged in. This distinction is the whole argument. The political class in the West has convinced…
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How a Transnational Worker-Cooperative Employs Immigrants by Incorporating Around the Nativists 1. THE HOOK: THE COLD NORTHERN CRUSH Berlin, November. Neukölln. The sky is a wet concrete lid. The Schneematsch—that brown slurry of melted snow, diesel, and regret—has already claimed your socks. At the U-Bahn stop, commuters huddle like penguins with expired transit passes. The…