(2011-09-22) Rao Obama Jobs Act Vs New Work

Venkatesh Rao gives a great contrasting of Network Economy thinking vs the Old Economy thinking of Washington DC esp demonstrated by Barack Obama's American Jobs Act (Job Creation) proposal.

*The whole circus is a completely cynical show put on by the political establishment with a view to the 2012 elections. My disenchantment with Obama is complete. As for the Republicans, there was never any enchantment for me to begin with.

WHAT Entrepreneurship? More Social Commerce bs? More useless tech that generates billions of dollars from mind-destroying addictions, employs only a handful, and makes Consumer-s even stupider than they already are?

People on Quora recognize that "jobs" is the wrong unit of analysis. But the Silicon Valley echo chamber, with its big lobbying for classical Entrepreneurship (which is pretty badly broken) fails to see that jobs and entrepreneurship are two sides of the same counterfeit coin.

EVERY product should try to increase the Free Agent viability of their customers. That's why I like products like Quora and AirBnb. In hidden small ways, they increase financial security for people figuring out new patterns of work.* Fractally Generative Pattern Language, 2011-07-20-[[Job CreationVsFree Agent]]