https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\nThere are a number of topics that I’d like to focus on at BusinessPundit, these include:<\/p>\n
The viability of Universal Basic Income<\/strong>
\nSeveral thought leaders including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have hinted at the future need of a universal basic income due to the increasing displacement of jobs by robots and machines. Can society make the pivot? What will the challenges be?<\/p>\nThe Blockchain<\/strong>
\nThe blockchain is being hyped as a game changer. A destroyer of the gatekeeper. Is it real or overhyped?<\/p>\nThe consequences of automation<\/strong>
\nAs more and more jobs are displaced by automation, how do we restructure society to be less job centric?<\/p>\nNeurodiversity<\/strong>
\nThere is increasing evidence that humans have a vast range of neurodiversity that effects everything from goal setting, personality, dispositions, attitudes, wants, likes, risk taking and talent. How might society internalize neurodiversity to become more effecient?<\/p>\nThe third world migrant crisis<\/strong>
\nHow do we uphold our values, preserve our high-functioning societies, while addressing the issue of third world economic migration?<\/p>\nThe future of the job<\/strong>
\nWill the job play a less vital role in personal identity in the future? Will it be less necessary for basic living? Will many choose not to work a full time job? Will some continue to work a full time job?<\/p>\nConditions for the sustainability of Single Payer Healthcare<\/strong>
\nCan single payer healthcare work? And if so, are there conditions that must be met (such as strong borders) to keep it sustainable?<\/p>\nThe future of social purpose<\/strong>
\nIf jobs increasingly become scarce, where will people derive a sense of social purpose?<\/p>\nThe future of money<\/strong>
\nWill the nature of money change in the future? Will it lose its power to shape (and even destroy) lives? How will things like automation, the internet and the blockchain enable non-monetary value to be expressed based on meritocracy rather than gatekeeping and control?<\/p>\nThe future of taxation<\/strong>
\nWhat will taxes look like in 100 years? Will they be simplified? Automated? Or will money take on such a different nature that taxation becomes antiquated?<\/p>\nCryptocurrency<\/strong>
\nMany people see a lot of potential in cryptocurrency as a way to make financial transactions more efficient (less hops, less rules, elimination of national boundaries, etc.). How will this effect the economy? Note that Russia is no mining Bitcoin as a national reserve. And Overstock.com are now accepting cryptocurrency for purchases. It seems here to stay.<\/p>\nConditions for the sustainability of socialism<\/strong>
\nCan socialism ever work (see Nordic nations)? If so, are there conditions that must be met to avoid failure (see Venezuela)?<\/p>\nThe danger of the mob in the Internet age<\/strong>
\nThe Internet turns a single mis-statement into a potential mob outrage, and life-changing firing. What can be done to address the amplification of the human emotions and tribalism in a non-natural environment?<\/p>\nDangerous trends in society<\/strong>
\nFree speech vs Hate speech. The existence of slippery slopes. The importance of due process.<\/p>\nThe role of risk taking in society and economic development<\/strong>
\nHow society effects the amount of risk citizens are willing to take, and what are the limits of good risk taking (versus destructive risk taking)?<\/p>\nSkin in the Game<\/strong>
\nWhy it’s important that decision makers have something to gain or lose with every policy decision that gets made in business or politics.<\/p>\nDoes size matter?<\/strong>
\nWhy do corporations grow stale? Why do small businesses have advantages? Is there an ideal size for businesses? Nations? Economies?<\/p>\nThe future of technology<\/strong>
\nWill AI be dangerous or an innocuous best friend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BusinessPundit has been around since 2003. It made a name for itself with insightful commentary, but eventually fell into disarray as it chased the clickbait market. We’re going to change that. Our goal is to revamp BusinessPundit into a thought-leader website with monthly in-depth commentary from a number of thinkers with strong, ideologically-diverse opinions. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69550","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"Focusing on the future","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69550"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70245,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69550\/revisions\/70245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}