Why the Internet Economy Raises Inequality – Implications for Media Managers

In countries undergoing de-industrialization — and which isn’t, among developed economies—an internet-based economic growth has been widely recommended as a way to create economic activity and thereby reduce the inequality of post-industrial society. In particular, the opportunities that the internet affords to the ‘creative workforce’ are believed to be an engine for employment, at a time when industrial jobs are being automated.

Because this is important, we have to confront the question openly, with no nostalgia for the past, love for the future, and without wishful thinking about the present.