人们准备好了：与失业经济和公民民主的斗争[AZW3/MOBI]

人类正处在最黑暗的时刻，或者说是最伟大的时刻
技术革命的后果即将受到重创：随着新技术取代制造业、服务业和专业部门的劳动力，失业率将飙升，而这个经济体已经陷入困境。我们所知的工作结束将在可以想象的最糟糕时刻发生：资本主义导致永久停滞，劳动力市场处于衰退状态，工资下降，贫困扩大，不平等加剧。只有我们经济的戏剧性民主化才能解决我们现在面临的生存挑战。然而，美国的政治进程被亿万富翁和公司特殊利益集团、腐败和垄断所主导，不仅阻碍了民主，也阻碍了进步。
当今时代的巨大挑战是确保技术进步的巨大好处被用于服务全人类，而不是让少数富人致富。罗伯特·W·麦切斯尼和约翰·尼科尔斯认为，美国需要一种新经济，在这种经济中，革命性的技术被应用于有效地解决环境和社会问题，并被用来振兴和扩大民主制度。基于密集的报道、丰富的历史分析，以及对正在发生的技术和社会变革的深刻理解，他们提出了一个大胆的战略，让我们的数字命运民主化——在为时已晚之前——并释放互联网和人类的真正力量。
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy [AZW3/MOBI]
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour — or its greatest moment
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent stagnation, when the labor market is in decrepit shape, with declining wages, expanding poverty, and scorching inequality. Only the dramatic democratization of our economy can address the existential challenges we now face. Yet, the US political process is so dominated by billionaires and corporate special interests, by corruption and monopoly, that it stymies not just democracy but progress.
The great challenge of these times is to ensure that the tremendous benefits of technological progress are employed to serve the whole of humanity, rather than to enrich the wealthy few. Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols argue that the United States needs a new economy in which revolutionary technologies are applied to effectively address environmental and social problems and used to rejuvenate and extend democratic institutions. Based on intense reporting, rich historical analysis, and deep understanding of the technological and social changes that are unfolding, they propose a bold strategy for democratizing our digital destiny — before it’s too late — and unleashing the real power of the Internet, and of humanity.

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