Sublime

In some ways the world has become less equal, but in more ways the world’s people have become better off.

Au cours des toutes dernières décennies, on a seriné aux habitants du monde entier que l’humanité était sur la voie de l’égalité, et que la mondialisation et les nouvelles technologies nous en rapprochaient à grands pas. En réalité, le XXIe siècle pourrait bien créer les sociétés les plus inégales de l’histoire. Si la mondialisation et l’Internet c

universal basic income (the capitalist paradise) or universal basic services (the communist paradise).

Unjust discrimination often gets worse, not better, with time. Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.

Some influential economists, led by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, claimed this was an important step forward, a demonstration that economics had become a value-free zone, shaking off any normative claims of what ought to be and emerging at last as a ‘positive’ science focused on describing simply what is. But this created a vacuum of goal

century, but also the most urgent political and economic project.

47 per cent of US jobs are at high risk.

The priority of modern politics is economic growth. But humanity’s struggle towards material security will only be worthwhile if we understand and find ways to attenuate the psychological afflictions that appear to continue into, and are sometimes directly fostered by, conditions of abundance. The problems of the thirty or so rich countries describ

The technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support the useless masses even without any effort on their side. But what will keep them occupied and content?