A common sense economic agenda
First, I want to examine three of the most popular policy suggestions for adapting to the AI economy, many of them emanating from Silicon Valley. These three are largely “technical fixes,” tweaks to policy and business models that seek to smooth the transition but do not actually shift the culture. After examining the uses and weaknesses of these
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The cosmopolitan outlook of Smart America overlaps in some areas with the libertarian views of Free America. Each embraces capitalism and the principle of meritocracy: the belief that your talent and effort should determine your reward. In the narrative of Smart America, meritocracy stands alongside democracy as the twin pillars of the American
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
If we are to rehabilitate progress, Enlightenment, modernity, growth and ambition—prometheanism—we need to ask where the left took a wrong turn. And when we do, we cannot avoid the recognition that Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, completed in 1944 and published in 1947—one of the seminal texts of critical theory and
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