The Atlantic
The Modern Supply Chain Is Snapping
Summary · 4 min · · If you can’t find your favorite shampoo or toothpaste, blame the modern supply chain. The closing of major Chinese manufacturing sites for only a few weeks during the coronavirus outbreak laid bare how much the availability of products depends on just-in-time deliveries from the world’s manufacturing powerhouses in Asia. Writing for The Atlantic, Lizzie O’Leary explains pandemic-related weaknesses in the global supply chain and their consequences. · Shared by 77, including getAbstract, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Bertrand Maltaverne, Taylor Pearson, David Wallace-Wells
medium.com
Circular consumption in the linear economy: only a drop in the ocean?
· Why consumers need business and government to further facilitate circular behaviours · Shared by 4, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Data & Society
After Supply Chain Capitalism
5 min · · We need a social safety net that protects all people · Shared by 9, including tjalve, Bertrand Maltaverne
Project Syndicate
How to Rethink Capitalism
3 min · · The 2008 financial crisis, together with failed efforts to combat climate change and sharply rising inequality, has frayed the neoliberal consensus that has prevailed in the United States and much of… · Shared by 11, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Mark Thoma
The New York Times
Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism
6 min · · The current system has led to profound inequality. To fix it, we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit. · Shared by 276, including Gerd Leonhard, Mo Koyfman, Scott Galloway, Marc Benioff, Denise Lee Yohn, 💥 Katie Martell, C.C. Chapman, Sarah E. Brown, Vala Afshar, Erik Voorhees, Steve Case, davidabrock, Gideonro, Johan den Haan, Oli Gardner 🇺🇦, Bill George, Jeff Bussgang, Eric Ries, Mike Kunkle, John C. Havens (he/him)
Project Syndicate
The Economic Consequences of Automation
4 min · · Economic theory does not provide a clear answer regarding the overall impact of technological progress on jobs. And even if automation has traditionally been beneficial in the long run, policymakers… · Shared by 39, including Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bertrand Maltaverne
The Guardian
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
5 min · · Deregulation means a company once run by engineers is now in the thrall of financiers and its stock remains high even as its planes fall from the sky · Shared by 72, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen, adrianoesch, Thomas Power, Jochen Burkhard
Harvard Business Review
The Death of Supply Chain Management
6 min · · If you work in the field, it’s time to update your résumé. · Shared by 66, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Marco Unternaehrer, Klaus Eck, Ron McIntyre, Antonio Vieira Santos, Michael Sumner, Bertrand Maltaverne, Christian P. Stobbe
Forbes
If AI Destroys Jobs, It’s Up To Us To Help People Affected
3 min · · We’re not going to save every finance job automated away by AI, but let’s make sure we take care of people at risk. · Shared by 5, including Bertrand Maltaverne
medium.com
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
8 min · · The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement · Shared by 133, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dominik Grolimund, Michael Duergner, douglas rushkoff, tcherno
medium.com
What Silicon Valley Won’t Admit About Technology and Progress
· All the great inventions took painstaking, risky, indirect routes to fruition. Has Silicon Valley really escaped history? · Shared by 6, including Bertrand Maltaverne
ReadWrite
Can AI Save the Supply Chain From its Own Destruction?
5 min · · Artificial Intelligence will save many businesses -- if they are wise enough to use it -- most likely even the Supply Chain. · Shared by 5, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Quartz
The only thing making Prime Day bearable for Amazon workers is the robots
8 min · · Inside a massive Amazon fulfillment center, days before the Prime Day shopping event, everything is calm. And that's because robots are running the show. · Shared by 10, including Bertrand Maltaverne
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why AI Isn’t the Death of Jobs
5 min · · Innovation-focused adopters of AI are positioning themselves for growth, which tends to stimulate jobs. · Shared by 15, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
OneZero
The Efficiency Delusion
10 min · · Optimizing how we live, work, and play is embedded deep in the psyche of coders and American culture. But how much efficiency is too much? · Shared by 82, including Rachel Botsman, Niklaus Gerber, Gerd Leonhard, Evan Selinger, Katja Evertz, Bertrand Maltaverne, Tillmann Allmer, Tom Connor, kp, Azeem Azhar
Fast Company
How much are we sacrificing for automation?
7 min · · Lessons from an Amazon warehouse, and a world where increasingly anything (and anyone) that can be measured, is. · Shared by 59, including Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen, Bertrand Maltaverne, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr