In light of that, it’s also worth noting that WeWork in particular spins its marketing to younger people with college credentials, the ones who’ll be living their prime years as the privileged 20%ers in that future world. The other 80%, if they have jobs at all, won’t have workplaces as pleasant and fun as the ones that WeWork (or the tech companies WeWork takes its design and amenities cues from) provide.
That will be the bargain: if you’re lucky enough to be born into the 20%, or luckier still to break into it, we’ll give you a technologically-enhanced version of something close to a 1980s Boomer lifestyle as long as you stay in line and maintain a large credit card balance. Otherwise, the best you can hope for is a neoliberal UBI that keeps you constantly poor but never broke.
I think this exists somewhere in between.
