He makes good points about the software filtering out qualified applicants, but I don't think that is the underlying problem.
The underlying problem is that there is a lot of unemployment and therefore too many people applying for too few jobs.
We just don't need that many people to order around anymore now that we have so much hardware and software automation. The public education system is designed to create wage slaves, and is effectively doing that, but we don't need that many anymore.
Another part of it of course is just that we are in an 'economic' down period and therefore have to be extremely selective when hiring since no one can afford any dead weight or even to do much training.
The entire 'economic' model has been invalidated by technology.
The public education system is designed to create wage slaves, and is effectively doing that, but we don't need that many anymore.
The other half of the problem is that our economy creates very few sources of income for the supposed "creative class", the newest Class of the New. If we say that our economy has evolved beyond the need for factory workers and we now need artists, writers, and hackers, we need to actually work on creating jobs for artists, writers and hackers (as distinct from mediocre programmers).
Well.. I actually think that anything that qualifies as a job is more or less going in the category of wage slave.
I just think that the extreme hierarchies and subservience are unnecessary and detrimental. I think we need to examine our basic assumptions and have a realistic perspective about the actual level of suffering that is currently going on in the world.
We need to see the extreme inequality as being unacceptable and move away from the Social Darwinian rationalizations.
Well, just to clarify further, whenever I talk like this, people think I mean to completely do away with money and/or move towards a traditional socialist or techno-communist model.
I don't want to do that. I think that almost all anti-capitalists are missing a very important lesson that we can take as a major success of capitalism: diversity and distribution is very important for robustness and ease of system evolution. Technocrats, techno-communists, social democrats, almost all seem to be aiming for centralization which has been proven to be extremely inadequate.
So I think the way forward is to create a system that while encouraging a great diversity of distributed, localized solutions to problems, at the same time the local solutions are developed and evaluated holistically over a comprehensive common global scientific information schema and database.
The underlying problem is that there is a lot of unemployment and therefore too many people applying for too few jobs.
We just don't need that many people to order around anymore now that we have so much hardware and software automation. The public education system is designed to create wage slaves, and is effectively doing that, but we don't need that many anymore.
Another part of it of course is just that we are in an 'economic' down period and therefore have to be extremely selective when hiring since no one can afford any dead weight or even to do much training.
The entire 'economic' model has been invalidated by technology.