Three seemingly random characters are running for their lives in this fictional thriller.
BROKEN DEMOCRACY
The book “Tyranny of the Minority” has 15 points to be implemented to fix our Democracy. But they are mostly about voting rights which are hard to quantify and get passed.
Likewise, Bernie Sander’s “Our Revolution” has lots of voting rights proposals. He also has a lot of financial reform proposals but misses the core problems.
“The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism” blames banks and the 1% for our problems but misses the fact that the underlying problem is our broken Capitalist Democracy and concepts allowed under Citizens United.
“The Assassination of a Broken Democracy” uses a thriller story to subliminally propose getting rid of 10 problems that did not exist 200 years ago. Some of the 10 problems include gerrymandering, filibuster and super PACs.
“Tyranny” and “Revolution” propose changing some of these but offer no process to get change done.
On the other hand, “Assassination” proposes a solution to eliminate these problems which did not exist 200 years ago.
Originalists like SCOTUS Judge Alito want to put us back 200 years. Since these 10 problems did not exist 200 years ago, they should agree to get rid of them.
AVAILABLE WHERE AND WHEN
I hope you enjoy “The Assassination of a Broken Democracy” as much as I did in bringing it to you. It is currently available at Lulu.com.
When you get the feeling that you forgot something but cannot remember what it is.
You just pored your heart and soul into a new, awesome technological thing like a futuristic automobile. You slaved day and night and sometimes weekends to get it right.
Then it hits you.
Crap! We forgot the engine!!!
Do we do electric, gas or hybrid?
Do we even have room for an engine?
This could get exciting.
Enjoy!
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Please read the quote from MarketWatch.com below and guess why this is bad.
“U.S. mergers & acquisitions activity is on track for a record month in May, with $241.6 billion of deals already announced, topping the previous record of $225.8 billion announced in May 2007, according to Dealogic data.”
ANSWER: The previous record was just before the Great Recession.
Specifically, eighteen months later the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was worth almost half of what it was in May 2007.
Here is a summary of why a recession is coming in plain English.
That’s right! How about a free car? But how is that possible?
Remember when newspaper websites were free in the beginning?
That is because of all the advertisements.
With the Google Car you will have lots of time to see – ads. And these ads will be displayed non-stop in the virtual reality space right in front of you.
The good news is this means the end of all those ugly billboards! You know like the 300 foot high ones between Atlanta and Macon, Georgia.
Finally our civilization has moved beyond billboards!
A LinkedIn.com article incorrectly proposed a future where employers share employees.
YOU MISSED IT BY THIS MUCH >< !
Employers need these 2 things from workers: 1. a certain amount of dedication without conflicts of interest and 2. a knowledge-base of the employer’s company processes.
These cannot be done with “contract labor” aka employee sharing as the article predicts.
INSTEAD JOB TRUSTS WILL EXIST.
The term “job banks” could just as easily be used but everyone hates banks.
These TRUSTS are the middle tier and act like a job service. They handle the pay and benefits for employees and possibly even the training. They will exist for groups of similar employees such as federal employees or software engineers.
The biggest problem with software engineers is the constant seesaw of waves of work and constant hiring, followed by layoffs and then hiring and then firing. Job Trusts will level the playing field.
My book “The Assassination of Political Robocalls” , which can be found at Amazon.com, foresees JOB TRUSTS along with 50 other predictions.
In conclusion, the article is correct that the future of work will be totally different. But Job Trusts will be the new paradigm.
Michael E Kelley 