How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Wasn’t the digital economy supposed to help all of us gain access to meaningful work? Computers would do the boring jobs while people did the stuff that matters? Instead, we’ve got workers replaced by robots and taxi drivers losing out to Uber. What went wrong? Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has a word for it: growth.
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