Part 1 — The Ticking Clock
- The Tech Backlash
- Do Middle class workers dream of tech companies?
- Big chances missed in the tech world
- The shifting balance of international power
- Technology and Institutional Change
- Modern History is a succession of paradigm shifts
- Different days, similar problems
- How we once built the Great Safety Net 1.0
- Stuck in the Dark Ages
- The Western middle class's never-ending crisis
- How the Dark Ages shifted risks onto individuals
- Making the West Great Again
Part 2 — The Entrepreneurial Age (Cf. Nivi's article)
4. Entrepreneurs and the new corporate world
- A brief history of science and entrepreneurship
- From Personal computing to continuous innovation
- Entrepreneurs are here to stay
5. Behind Entrepreneurs: The Multitude
- How customers rose as the main force in the corporate contract
- Production and consumption are increasingly blurred
- What's a tech company anyway
6. Consumer Power: The Modern-Day Janus
- We're all undergoing the "Wal-Mart Effect"
- Instability is the new normal
- Getting from Great to Greater
Part 3 — The Collapse of the Cathedrals
7. The Safety Net in an Open World
- Software is opening the world
- The thalassocracies
- A more open world calls for greater economic security
8. From the Old the the New Working Class
- The old working class has been behind
- The new factory floor
- The problem with proximity services (Cf. Europe is a Developing Economy from European Straits)
9. The Lost Art of the State Intervention
- The state as the solution to many problems
- How bureaucracy reached the point of irrelevance
- Reviving the state
Part 4 — A Greater Safety Net
10. Always Be Rebounding
- Education is no longer the magic bullet
- Occupational licensing for amateurs
- Affordable housing for hunters and settlers
11. Institutions for Hunters
- A new breed of consumer finance
- Dealing a new hand in insurance
- We should all be taxed like Donald Trump
12. A Hedge for the Networked Individual
- The corporate world in retreat
- The new frontier in collective bargaining
- The equation for creating good jobs
Conclusion — Basic Income isn't Enough