Great Decoupling II¶
The hushed question guiding the world:
“How much robotics escalation are we actually getting in exchange for those hamburgers?”
A (comparatively rare) XS prediction: The Great Decoupling is a
transitional event that isn’t going away, and can be expected to
accelerate. The ‘capital goods sector’ — today probably more
reliably captured as B2B enterprise — has shifted to a permanently
higher level of economic significance, indexing the secular
decline in labor-power acquisition as a central resource
requirement of automated capital. In strict reciprocal conformity
with this, consumer goods production is steadily shedding its
privilege as the ultimate justification for economic activity in
general, and can be expected to undergo roughly continuous decline
as a proportion of overall business activity.
Hail Mary Pass for status quo preservation: a basic
income.
Cultural re-narrativization in compliance with the trend: the ‘new
economy’ requires every individual to adopt a corporate identity.
Tap into the B2B traffic, or drop out of the game.