productivity
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On the National Portrait Gallery, Thomas Jefferson, and haunting.
Jefferson looks haunted, although not haunted enough …
David Hockney, Edward Baptist, Eleannor Roosevelt portrait, Eleanor Roosevelt, How to Excavate a Heart, Jenny Odell, measurement, National Portrait Gallery, portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, productivity, quantification, queer art, racial injustice, Saving Time, slavery, Smithsonian Art Gallery, Snail Space, spreadsheets and slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told, Thomas Jefferson
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On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’
What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?
Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
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On productivity, and the risk of accidentally making the world worse when we’re trying to make it better.
If efficiency were all we were after, why bother with human consumers? Robots could grow the food, and gobble it all up, too.
Frank Brown Cloud 