{"id":30326,"date":"2018-01-30T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30326"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:48:41","slug":"rising-social-disorder-is-inevitable-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30326","title":{"rendered":"Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here’s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here’s Why<\/a><\/h3>\n

We can do better, and if we don’t, the only possible output of such an unequal system is increasing social disorder. <\/i><\/p>\n

We are in a very peculiar point in history.<\/b> On the one hand, we’re reassured that all is well because Every One of the World\u2019s Big Economies Is Now Growing.<\/a> (NY Times)<\/p>\n

Yet at the same time, we read that “Something Is Very Wrong With The Global Economy”:<\/b> Richest 1% Made 82% Of Global Wealth In 2017<\/a> and are asked, Can the World Survive a Winner-Take-All Global Economy?<\/a><\/p>\n

Even the authors of the rah-rah NY Times piece on the wonderfulness of the global economy expressed concern that this “growth” may not be distributed any more equally than the previous 10 years of “recovery.”<\/p>\n

We already know absolutely nothing will change because neither the inputs nor the feedback loops in the economy have changed.<\/b> As Donella Meadows explained in her seminal paper Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System<\/a>, the only ways to change a system’s outputs (in this case, widening income and wealth inequality and rising social disorder) is to change the inputs or add a new feedback loop.<\/p>\n

The status quo has not changed the inputs or added any new feedback loops, so the output of the system–extremes of widening income and wealth inequality–cannot possibly change.<\/p>\n

The portmanteau word “precariat” (precarious + proletariat) describes much of the modern work force<\/b>–those in the less specialized sectors of the gig economy, informal\/black market economy or in the traditional corporate-employment economy but with irregular work hours and little in the way of benefits.<\/p>\n

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Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here’s Why We can do better, and if we don’t, the only possible output of such an unequal system is increasing social disorder. We are in a very peculiar point in history. On the one hand, we’re reassured that all is well because Every One of the World\u2019s Big Economies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[127,1465,18213,11048,391,1621,18214,587,10588,3721],"class_list":["post-30326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-class-warfare","tag-donella-meadows","tag-feedback-loops","tag-growth","tag-inequity","tag-leverage-points","tag-of-two-minds","tag-social-disorder","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30327,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions\/30327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}