Your era will be typified by the momentous clash between two opposing proposals: ‘Democratize everything!’ versus ‘Commodify everything!’ The proposal favoured by powerful and influential people and institutions is ‘Commodify everything!’ They want to convince you that the solution to our world’s problems is to accelerate and to deepen the commodification of human labour, land, machines and the environment. ‘Democratize everything!’ is the recommendation that I have been building towards throughout this book. Take your pick. The clash of these two agendas will determine your future well after
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