What do these fictional worlds have to do with our reality? It may be a stretch but perhaps they once resembled earth today: a place of abundance faced with a choice. Should technology and resource rights be democratised or should they be held in ever fewer hands?
这些虚构的世界与我们的现实有何关联?尽管这样说有些牵强——不过,这些世界或许曾经与如今的地球有些相像:这个物质丰富的世界正面临一个选择。应该让技术和资源归大众所有,还是应该让这些东西的所有权越来越集中地掌握在少数人手中?
As Paul Krugman, the economist, argued, too much market power can easily end up raising average rents to capital while reducing the return on investment perceived by corporations.
保罗·克鲁格曼(Paul Krugman)曾说,过大的市场力量最终很可能提高平均资本租金,同时降低企业所理解的投资回报。
This notion resonates well with today’s crisis because it is consistent with the paradox of rapidly rising profits amid low real interest rates, stagnant real wages and persistent unemployment.
当前的危机验证了这个说法,因为在危机中我们确实遇到了看似矛盾的现象:在实际利率极低、实际工资停滞不前和失业率居高不下的情况下,利润水平迅速上升。
It also explains rising inequality. After all, when human capital is replaced by physical capital, the fruits of innovation have to flow to the owners of the technology that produced it. A new rentier class is born and the economic problem, rather than be resolved, continues.
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