Data as Labor Day
James Felton Keith
CEO @InclusionScore | Author @DataIsLabor | International ISO-30415 DEI Standard Bearer | Created DEI Insurance | Engineer & Economist
As you all prepare for Labor Day's much needed long weekend, I hope that you'll think about the income inequality that is plaguing our economy, even while the joblessness rates fall. People are working more and more for less and less, and it has nothing to do with their jobs. The greatest problem facing America is how little we value the input of people to the productivity that our companies create. People contribute value intrinsically, they don't need to endeavor to "create" it. Because of this fact we must all be paid for the productive creations that we contribute to. I've been in Silicon Valley this week talking to entrepreneurs, politicians, and academics about how we solve this problem and get people the money that they are owed from this economy. We're organizing a new Data Union to identify your Data as Labor. The data itself is less important that what it represents. It is evidence of your contributions, and as more information about how we influence productivity is available, my teams are preparing to represent you legally so that you can take back the guaranteed income you deserve. Some people are calling it a Basic Income, but there is nothing basic about the money that you are owed. Our economy is 200% more productive over the past 50 years than it was in the previous 50 years, and 99% of the people have 0 benefits to show for it.
This place is built on our backs (data) and it's time to pay us back. Have a relaxing Labor Day folks. #ValueToThePeople
Million ￡ Masterplan Coach | Helping Established Small Businesses Grow & Scale To Either Expand or Exit Using the 9-Step Masterplan Programme | UK #1 Business Growth Specialists
3 年Insightful?James, thanks for sharing!
Prof. Media Studies
5 年Unfortunately, "Artificial Intelligence" experts (i.e., Kai-Fun Lee), have expressed dismay that the disproportionate gap between the wealthiest 1%? including developers and investors, and the low wage earners who have had minimal training or exposure to Internet or cyber space technologies, is only going to increase to abysmal proportions.
Data Industry Pioneer | Awarded Tech Leader at IBM | TEDx Speaker | Startup Mentor | Adjunct Professor
6 年We have more data today than yesterday. More of it is created about us every day, which also means that the individual data elements become less valuable over time, approaching net zero, and may even represent negative value via sunk IT costs of collection, storage, and use. Data has no long term asset value because it is infinitely redundant. Also, long term income inequality is not a universal condition. It didn't happen in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland. Why not? Don't they have data too?