Re: <nettime> the disappearing middle class and snake oil salesmen

[Michael Eisenmenger <michael@mediajumpstart.org>]

I have to agree with Allan. Clearly those VR goggles blinkered Jaron 
from seeing the past. The one insight of a disappearing middle class 
informed by the Kodak story seem rather accidental - though that is 
worth pondering . . .

On 5/16/13 11:17 PM, allan siegel wrote:

> hi there,
>
> well, to tell the truth, after reading just the infamous (so it seems) 
> Jaron Lanier interview it is not his shabby analysis that is shocking,
> i.e. "Of course jobs become obsolete. But the only reason that new jobs
> were created was because there was a social contract in which a more
> pleasant, less boring job was still considered a job that you could be
> paid for.
<...>


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