His core arguments on the KE are as follows:
- It is creating a schism in the American workforce, and those on the outside lack access to the necessary educational institutions to ever catch up.
- Our IP laws are stagnating our economic development by keeping it isolated to a handful of companies in each industry vertical. Compared to our past this prevents transitioning to an entirely new mode of production. Compare that to history - if you wanted to open a loom factory during the industrial rev. you had access to the loom tech. Not the case today. There's also no shortcut like there was in the past. E.g. Put a farmer in a factory assembly line is NBD. Put a plant worker behind a laptop and ask him to write a script? Not happening.
--- Platform companies only have their dominion because an IP loophole states the individual's data is not their property. We make our data our property and companies like FB/Google struggle to retain their power.
- It's a form of work that utilizes the greatest human power, imagination.
- Under the right political structures this form of work ushers in a new human era. Under the current it stagnates our potential.
Happy to answer specifics if anyone has any questions about his work/perspective.