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Flight rules for the post-capitalist era

By Robert Ireland in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2019-07-20 07:25

You are standing at the edge of an abyss. The time is now, and across the abyss, is your future. The challenge: can you rise above the abyss, or fall into it? The answers are out there, but it's on you to find them.

We've been working since the Dawn of Time, since humans lived by following game trails and eating berries. It's about making a living. That's changing - and as changes go this is one of the biggest. Labor, as we've known it, will become obsolete in the decades ahead.

In Max Weber's classic work of sociology, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the author explained it was an article of faith for followers of Protestant reformer John Calvin, that people who did OK in business might think of themselves among those who would be saved at the end. It became the foundation of the Protestant Work Ethic.

Flight rules for the post-capitalist era

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