The Job

"the job" is an artificial construct, in which work is managed and parcelled out by corporations and other institutions, to which individuals must apply to participate in doing the work.

If you want to understand the future, just look at what rich people do today. 

privileged class experiences a taste of a future that could be the future for everyone.

man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.
- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes

There may need to be two kinds of money: machine money, and human money. Machine Money is what you use to buy things that are produced by machines. These things are always getting cheaper. Human Money is what you use to buy things that only humans can produce. The key thing that humans offer that machines do not is ‘authenticity’.
- Paul Buchheit, GMail creator

Perhaps “Human Money” needs to be further subdivided into “Caring Money” and “Creativity Money.”
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media


If “internet creator” were a company, it would be hiring faster than any company in silicon valley.

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