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These are the scholars and experts in the government agency in Qatar, and they say the most important factors are: "Increased age at first marriage, increased educational level of Qatari woman and more women integrated in the
labor
force."
So what it is, is these four: Children should survive, children shouldn't be needed for work, women should get education and join the
labor
force and family planning should be accessible.
And with the
labor
pain, I didn't have the strength to ask them to read it to me.
This demographic dividend is incredible, but paradoxically, there's also the mirage of mighty
labor
pools.
But it was very
labor
intensive.
And I don't like weeding, and I don't like back-breaking
labor.
The textile industry is another one we often think of when we hear about slave
labor.
Now that expense can be huge, but if the town can mobilize X amount of volunteers for Y hours, the dollar value of that
labor
used goes toward the town's contribution.
Karl Marx saw this as the tragedy of capitalism, the alienation of the worker from the product of his
labor.
The workers I got to know had a curiously abstract relationship with the product of their
labor.
Their relationship with the product of their
labor
was more complicated, surprising and funny than he could have imagined.
Whereas
labor
is associated with the body.
It's associated with the people who perform
labor
or undergo
labor.
So to me, the mindset that denies that, that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of slaves, or people who perform manual
labor.
And 70 percent of this new
labor
force were previously unemployed or underemployed.
As it turns out, when tens of millions of people are unemployed or underemployed, there's a fair amount of interest in what technology might be doing to the
labor
force.
In particular, I think my projection is way too optimistic, because when I did it, I was assuming that the future was kind of going to look like the past, with
labor
productivity growth, and that's actually not what I believe.
Because when I look around, I think that we ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to technology's impact on the
labor
force.
They don't run on capital, they don't run on
labor.
Unfortunately, I picture it made in Germany or Japan, but this amazing machine that's constantly scouring every bit of human endeavor and taking resources, money, labor, capital, machinery, away from the least productive parts and towards the more productive parts, and while this might cause temporary dislocation, what it does is it builds up the more productive areas and lets the less productive areas fade away and die, and as a result the whole system is so much more efficient, so much richer for everybody.
This is about a hidden corner of the
labor
market.
At this level of the
labor
market, what you need is a marketplace for spare hours.
But is there more that could be done for this corner of the
labor
market?
In a way, this was like the second birth for the child, after 3.3 million years, but the
labor
was very long.
I want to talk a little bit today about
labor
and work.
And we really have this incredibly simplistic view of why people work, and what the
labor
market looks like.
So I started thinking about how do we experiment with this idea of the fruits of our
labor.
Karl Marx, on the other hand, said that the alienation of
labor
is incredibly important in how people think about the connection to what they are doing.
I think that as we move to situations in which people have to decide on their own about how much effort, attention, caring, how connected they feel to it, are they thinking about
labor
on the way to work, and in the shower and so on, all of a sudden Marx has more things to say to us.
This is slave
labor
to my own project.
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