President Obama's ultimately ineffectual farewell address (a fitting end to his presidency) came down to three key elements.
"The next wave of economic dislocations won't come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes...middle-class jobs obsolete. So we're going to have to forge a new social compact...to update the social safety net to reflect the way we live now."
"Workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves."
"Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit...that science and reason matter...we'll make common ground and compromise impossible."
These three forces - automation, wealth inequality, and the rise of brutalism - will shape the course of human history.
"Because, as my mother used to tell me, reality has a way of catching up with you."
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