Day 10: Dude, we better innovate!

 I am tremendously fortunate. In the peak of the financial crisis in 2008, I got a very decent job at consulting firms with great colleagues and projects. Now, in the midst of an evitable yet tremendous health crisis, I am working in the industry of my dreams applying science.

Despite last years with jobs opportunities, I am prepared for failure, like I am prepared for death. It is not something I am looking for, but it is definetely something likely, I would even say inevitable. Although is not proven that failure, nor death must come!

We have seens businesses closing, delocalization,  and automated jobs. I think some sectors will be more and more concentrated, it is more efficient in many cases, and it also provides a better service. The question remains, if that is good in the long term for our prosperity and democracy.

This trend observed in distribution, music and film services, software and phones, will and does not apply to all. That means that there are many activities, where concentration will be limited, because digitalization it is limited too.

Yet many jobs we know today will dissapear, as small businesess. If new ones are created, should not depend on benevolent goverments, nor huge corporations, I do not think those are the best employers, specially when competition is healthy and desirable.

We should organized and protect our rights, not pushing down our labor and civil rights to keep a job that is cheaper to do somewhere else. We must instead create new services and a new economy that is not delocalizable, nor automatic. We have monetized almost everything, yet, we do not dedicate enough money to what make lives worth.

We do not invest enough in meaningful education, hollistic medicine, clean energy, ecologycal food production, better and affordable housing, cleaner air and water, species protection... The world face challenges, that require investment and can create millions of meaningful jobs. Here is a list:

1. global warming :
1. energy and material savings
2. isolation
3. close loop production
4. zero waste technoogies
5. repair damages in oceans, forests and other ecosistems
2. food security:
1. resilient and ecological food
2. nutrient rich food
3. low water food
4. soil restoration
3. energy security:
1. clean energy: generation and storage
2. decouple transport from fossil fuels
3. better transport planning
4. peace:
1. manage conflicts
2. ensure dialogs and protect diversity
3. stablish fair trade
4. improve emotional intelligence
5. ensure human rights 
5. health
1. improve mental health
2. improve social interactions
3. improve nutrition, sleep and though habits
4. ensure access to sanitation and basic medicine
5. stablish preventive care
6. education:
1. create education that find potential and reduce standarization
2. make education free and accessible online/offline
3. reduce students per class
4. create skill programs and not content-memory based programs
5. support creation-innovation as part of development, and not zero risk behaviours
7. banking
1. reinvest in the real economy, create local banks again for the people and the real economy
2. include social accounting and long term benefits
3. ensure access to affordable credit to all
8. housing
1. build affordable, ecological and high quality buildings
2. design spaces for community building and not isolation
3. improve life quality via design (light, warmth, green ambients..)

The political right is failing, because it does not reduce significantly taxes to those creating opportunities or wealth, and only knows to make adjustments on the workers salary and public services. The political left is also failing, because it only thinks on redistributing an unequal and unjust distribution of the pie, without ensuring that there is a sustainable foundation to keep the pie size. Any working system imposes obligations and protect the rights, but many just look at one or the other, as if you cannot have it all.

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The unconvenient truth is that, although corruption and  failing markets have to be regulated, we are all responsible for our prosperity. We got to innovate and create the future, or a world with increasing automatization, market concretation and poor environment will be the scenary of a world we never dare the change.

Let's go!