Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future 4 doc

... Taxes 140 The “Workerless” Payroll Tax 142 “Progressive” Wage Deductions 144 Defeating the Lobbyists 146 A More Conventional View of the Future 149 The Risk of Inaction 152 Chapter 4: Transition ... Amazon Copyright©2009byMartinR.Ford  AllRightsReserved, including the right of reproduction inwholeorinpartinanyform.  Publishedin the UnitedStatesby...

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... are growingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightest lightsin the tunnelfinallyfeel the impact and alsobeginto losetheirlight. The owners of the businessesin the tunnel areseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... mayhaveactuallyin- creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices. Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealth of th...

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... more popular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen- tage of the three and ahalfmillioncashiersin the U.S.no longerhavejobs?Whatadditionaleducation and training canweoffertheseworkers? And whatjobswoulditpre- parethemfor? And what is the impact of thatpotential unemploy- mentonmarketdemandforgoods and services?Cashiers aregenerallynothighly...

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... food—all of these and countless thousands of otherstructures and chemicalsthatcomprise ourbodies and make usfunctionareproteins. And they areallconstructedthroughnanotechnology. Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwill begin ... collating and faxing in- formation. The intellectualportion of the job—eitherap- provingordenying the loan—isprobably...

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... access to capital, small plots withpoor economy of scale,trade barriers, and oftenoutrightexploitationat the hands of governments and corrupt officials. Manufacturing in China is ... Amazon takeaper-capitaincomethatissomewhatcomparableto that of developed nations and then multiply it by some hugefraction of the Chinesepopulation.In otherwords, t...

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... to decline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverage workers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis- tribution of incomesin the UnitedStates and thenelimi- nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincome of the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of consumers) ... to lookinalittlemoredepthatsome of the mostwidelyheld conventi...

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... elimi- nates the jobsthatprovideincometoconsumers. The es- sentialideaisthatweshouldimposesomecombination of aconsumptiontax and/ oraspecialdirecttaxonbusiness thatcaptures the incomewhich,inanon-automatedecon- omy,wouldbepaidoutinwages.Overtime,as the wages paidtoaverageworkersdecrease(asapercentage of reve- nue),thesetaxeswouldbegraduallyi...

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... have strongeducations and training.Thesepeoplearebeneficia- ries of the informationage.On the toxicwastelandside of the fence, are relatively unskilled workers. These people THE LIGHTS IN THE ... dramatically negative.In the UnitedStates,twothirds of workers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.While effortstoimproveeducation and trainingarel...

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... acentrallyplanned economy,  and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern- ments and a“dictatorship of the proletariat.”In the wake of the collapse of communism, these ideas ... Amazon  49 Blinder,AlanS.,“IsGovernmenttooPolitical?”ForeignAffairs,No- vember/December1997.Web: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19971101faessay3815/alan-s- blinder/is-gover...

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... has quicklyattracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and mayresultinnewregulation. Astheseexamplesshow,wecanexpectthat the rate of change and the volatility of nearlyeverythingaroundus will ... securities werethensoldtobanks and financialinstitutionsallover the world,with the understandingthattheywereverylow riskinvestments. When...

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