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  • The Internet’s greatest disruptive innovation: Inequality - Salon.com
    http://www.salon.com/2013/07/19/the_internets_greatest_disruptive_innovation_inequality

    Unions are a means for redistributing wealth from capital to labor. Strong unions reduce income inequality and contribute to a thriving middle class. #Silicon_Valley, we are coming to learn, does the opposite. Over the past three decades, the spread of technologies associated with the silicon chip and the Internet has been accompanied by growing income inequality and an increasingly squeezed middle class.

    #digital_labor #travail&tic #inégalités #syndicats #classes_moyennes #disruption #plo via @op

    The crucial mystery facing anyone who wants to evaluate Silicon Valley’s contribution to the general welfare is this: Why hasn’t the productivity boost from so much dramatic technological change lifted the standard of living for everyone?

    a growing body of research makes a strong case that advances in information and communication technologies have clearly contributed to what economists call “job polarization.”

    In the U.S., more than 1.1 million secretaries vanished from the job market between 2000 and 2010, their job security shattered by software that lets bosses field calls themselves and arrange their own meetings and trips. Over the same period, the number of telephone operators plunged by 64 percent, word processors and typists by 63 percent, travel agents by 46 percent and bookkeepers by 26 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.

    Et la conclusion :

    Redistribution will happen.

    #idéologie_californienne #capitalisme_cognitif #libertarien #revenu_garanti #redistribution