Seinem 1999er Buch ‹Brief Interviews with Hideous Men› stellte der Schriftsteller David Foster Wallace eine äußerst kurze Geschichte voran: «When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

Ein Bericht des Weltwirtschaftsforums geht davon aus, dass durch die 4. Industrielle Revolution mehr Arbeitsplätze verloren gehen als hinzukommen Prognosen über die Auswirkungen der Computerisierung der Arbeit durch Big Data, KI, Roboter, 3-Druck und Industrie 4.0 gibt es viele. Schon in den 1960er Jahren hoffte oder fürchtete man, dass die menschliche Arbeit weitgehend überflüssig werden

On June 5, a national referendum will be held on whether an amendment should be made to the Swiss Constitution, committing governments to moving towards realisation of a basic income for every citizen. It does not state what amount should be provided. That was the correct approach, because that should be decided democratically and separately.

We are at the crisis point in global transformation analogous to Karl Polanyi’s account of the impact of the rise of the market economy in England in The Great Transformation. The neo-liberalism that drove the disembedded phase known as «globalisation» sought to create a global market society in which commodification was extended into every feasible