The problem with this perspective isn't that it isn't lucid, but that shortly the answer to the question "what happens if I go on strike"... twitter.com/rcbregman/stat
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... will be "absolutely fucking nothing".
Redefining our relationship with politics & labor markets will not really fix anything.
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Politics and labor markets are not systems that can survive a post-scarcity world staffed by robots and developing futuretech. Nuh-uh.
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Completely new ethical, moral and even spiritual frameworks - you know, the woo-woo stuff? - will do a hell of a lot more good than that.
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You can approach that from the tech angle - making old power structures obsolete - or the human angle - making new ideas...
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... because trying to fix a system that is visibly broken beyond repair and about to be stress tested *very heavily* is not effective.
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And I'm sorry, telling Mr. Joe Banker that you should have some of his share because he's useless... he has the money. You don't. See?
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Meanwhile Smart Autonomous Cleaning System just took your job and that of every other garbage collector in the city, to make one nerd rich.
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This perspective is not only a cloying, comfortable illusion of power - it is a complete waste of time aside from as a conversation starter.
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That said the author seems like a good guy and soundbites are difficult to do well, so maybe his book is worth reading.