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The Slow Death Of Industrialism

In: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future

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  • PHILIPP KRISTIAN DIEKHÖNER

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A humane economy, fuelled by social capital and genuine mutual gain, is a promising scenario on our horizons. Humans are not industrial. If you think that’s obvious, you are of course right. That raises the question why much of today’s world is built on industrialist principles and how those principles have permeated beyond the mass manufacturing world into our lives and psyches. Combined with hyper-globalism as we have experienced for several decades now, industrialist principles have turned us into appendages or extensions of production and consumption more so than we perhaps appreciate. We are often unaware of how entrenched this thinking has become (ever wondered why your supervisor is called a ‘line manager’?). As Indian mystic Sadhguru observes so aptly, “Human is not a resource”…

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  • Philipp Kristian Diekhöner, 2021. "The Slow Death Of Industrialism," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future, chapter 6, pages 77-84, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Future of Work; Future; Futurism; Trends; Transformation; Corporate Innovation; Digital Transformation; Trust Economy; Sharing Economy; Deep Technology; Future Economy; Startups; Digital Trust; Digital Economy; Digitisation;
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    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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