Who Will Be Adverse?

Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki ()
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Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki: National Institute of Telecommunication

Chapter Chapter 8 in The Future of Work in Information Society, 2016, pp 63-66 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses possible objections to the radical reform of capitalism proposed in the previous chapter. The objections might relate to the seemingly utopian character of the proposed reform, might result from the paradigm of predominantly neoliberal economics (while this paradigm does not include an understanding of possible impacts of positive feedbacks), might argue that precariat is a new and untested concept, etc. The Author argues, however, that enterprises are needed in a country mainly for providing working places, and if they do not perform accordingly to this ethical obligation, they should be forced to do so by a suitable taxation system. The proposed reform is obviously a kind of a hybrid of socialism and capitalism, with a market-oriented version of the universal right of work; but most of serious writings about the future of capitalism require such a hybrid solution. The proposed reform cannot be introduced without an international agreement, but such an agreement is needed in order to prevent the danger of annihilation of human intelligence on Earth.

Keywords: Positive feedbacks versus neoliberal economics; Ethical duty to create new working places; Why do we need entrepreneurs; A hybrid of socialism and capitalism; Market-oriented version of universal right of work; Dangers of exponential development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33909-2_8

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