New World of Work – A Race to the Top

In his recent blog post, The Forever Recession, Seth Godin says that there are two economies. One is the manufacturing economy where it is a race to the bottom, and communities across the world will risk the environment and labour in order to become the cheapest means of production. If it can be systematized, it will be. If they can automate your job, they will.

He says that economy is not coming back to North America, and we don’t want it anyway.

The other economy is what he calls the “revolution of connection”:

When everyone has a laptop and connection to the world, then everyone owns a factory. Instead of coming together physically, we have the ability to come together virtually, to earn attention, to connect labor and resources, to deliver value.

This economy, I believe, is not necessarily limited to North America. It will be worldwide, and the competition will be fierce. But, the life in this new economy certainly seems like an adventure.