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We feel the industrial era dissolving around us as its values of perpetual growth, hoarded wealth, and destruction of our planetary commons become not just unsustainable but abhorrent.

When things change, we inevitably carry a lot of baggage from what was before into what's emerging, and it often doesn't serve us well.  In this case, the baggage comprises whole skill sets and attitudes that have formed the basis of businesses and jobs for generations. 

Horses gave way to cars, craft gave way to factories, and quantum mechanics eroded our comforting ideas of the absolute precision of materialist science. Along the way, whole tranches of infrastructure went with them. Now, it's the turn of large chunks of the professions, journalism, consulting, sales staff and others to look on with concern as AI and machine learning eat their job descriptions. Labels that once denoted status and certainty are disappearing as jobs that were for a time made efficient through process move from managers to …