Michael Saylor Channels Joseph Schumpeter in His Vision of an Abundant, Cyber Future
8th December 2012
That politicians regularly talk about “job creation” is a strong signal that most have never created any. It’s lost on the political class, but jobs are most plentiful in business sectors where they’re most readily being destroyed.
True dat. Especially ones who have never had a real job in their lives, like AlGore or Jesse Jackson or most of those named Kennedy or Rockefeller.
Put simply, the mass destruction of farming jobs allowed for the redirection of precious human capital toward more productive, higher value work.
And even today people aren’t comfortable with that, as all the hand-wringing about ‘family farms’ makes plain. Similarly, the mass destruction of conventional manufacturing jobs will allow for the redirection of precious human capital toward more productive, higher value work — although, again, people aren’t comfortable with that, as all the handwringing about ‘off-shoring’ makes even plainer.
Sure, a lot of low-IQ people are going to starve or spend their lives in drug-induced coma, but — tell the truth — are the rest of us really going to miss them? If everybody who voted for Obama disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, we’d see exponential growth rates in the economy and science that would catapult us into the next stage of human existence.