{"id":193,"date":"2010-07-31T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/our-own-worst-enemy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-31T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T16:45:16","slug":"our-own-worst-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/our-own-worst-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our own worst enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Low quality demand, then, means that we buy cheap, but the price is  invisibly steep: it ignites a global race to the bottom, what a  complexity economist might call a dynamic equilibrium of negative  consumption externalities, consumption that results not just in  joblessness but a loss in the <em>quality <\/em>of jobs. The quality of a  job is sparked by higher quality demand; or, valuing more than just the  dollar price of a thing, but also its human and social impact. When we  have low-quality demand, we have low-quality jobs. When we value  McDonalds, the result is McJobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/haque\/2010\/07\/a_deeper_kind_of_joblessness.html\">Umair Haque &#8211; A Deeper Kind of Joblessness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low quality demand, then, means that we buy cheap, but the price is invisibly steep: it ignites a global race to the bottom, what a complexity economist might call a dynamic equilibrium of negative consumption externalities, consumption that results not just in joblessness but a loss in the quality of jobs. The quality of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/our-own-worst-enemy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our own worst enemy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}