Joanna BrysonGreat talk by @[email protected] yesterday:
Class recomposition in the digitalized knowledge-based economy
The "lowest" but growing class: "servants" like delivery people, healthcare.
What formerly was known as labour he calls "producers", shrinking in either number or wage.
Then the "winners" 1/2
The double quotes are his, it's work in progress. He hates that the poorest & most precarious are called "unskilled" – it is difficult & highly skilled work for a small woman to move elderly people around, for example. I suggested calling them "non-scaling" (1 on 1) and the "winners" "scaling" 2/3
Similar to my own work on #affectivePolarisation, @[email protected] comments on how the producers are actually doing OK economically, but they feel their horizons have shrunk, and complain there is nothing at the end of the month.
It seems to me this #precarity may also come from upselling… 3/3