“I Was There” Inside Tech Elite’s Plan to Abandon Humanity | Douglas Rushkoff
Origins of Employment and Hourly Wages: The concept of 'employment' and hourly wages was invented by the aristocracy in the late Middle Ages to stop the rise of the middle class. Previously, people worked based on value takeawayRetrocausality and Time Loops: The concept of retrocausality suggests events in the future affect the present (e.g., studying for a test after taking it improves scores). This challenges linear time and suggests a interctakeaway“That's when hourly wages happened. That's when the clock went on the tower in the medieval village. They didn't have clocks up there before. They put them up really as a way of normalizing, showing time is our value. Thquote














