In a couple of decades, the entire world will be jobless

Highlights from Elio D’Anna’s Conference at the European School of Economics in Florence

The coming era of joblessness is not a crisis, nor a threat but a blessing - an initiation through which humanity is released from compelling necessity and invited to remember its genius, creative nature - a quiet, graceful advent that breaks the ancient spell binding life to labor.

For many, “joblessness” still evokes instability, loss of dignity, and fear. Yet from a higher vantage point, it appears as a precious, hidden gift: the end of the age-old bargain that requires human beings to sell their time in order to exist.