Markets Without Workers: From Rentier Capitalism to Community Issuance For most of modern history, capitalism and socialism operated under the same assumption: employers needed human employees. Wages were the channel through which productivity gains flowed into society. Whether you sold your time on the market or had it allocated by the state, work was the anchor. But that world is fading. Automation, offshoring, and financialization have unmoored the link between labor and livelihood. To und...
