"How the internet is making us poor" by Christopher Mims at Quartz

[Newest Reality]

16. For some, yes ...

using "we" is a rather broad brush, perhaps?

That "we" seems to be downgrading and dissolving and so, there are those of us who are already without a house, home, or stuff to store, and there are those who are getting closer to that reality.

That's not "much richer" for growing swaths of people and we need to reckon with distribution of profit and wealth as productivity goes up, technology increases and automation improves to a point where the situation will only worsen economically for more people.

The gains have been turning into loses for larger numbers what with flat wages and more part-time and temp work as well as increases in service sector employment.

This could be solvable, but it would take a drastic and radical change in how we view work, income and distribution of the results of productivity, which seems to go in the opposite direction of the "rugged individualist" and libertarian styles of the Right.