Developmental State in the 21st Century: Enhancing Society and Protecting Rights

📚 The developmental state in the 21st century should retain the features that were important in the 20th century.

💼 The state needs sufficient resources to hire capable people and provide long-term rewarding careers.

🌍 The 21st century developmental state should focus beyond capital accumulation and industry to effectively serve society.

The 21st century developmental state focuses on capability enhanced goods like education and health.

The 21st century developmental state needs to develop broader and wider-reaching ties with society.

The failure of capitalist economic development and the state to deliver basic goods leads to the polarization of civil society.

💡 The video discusses the potential threat of new technologies, such as automation and machine learning, leading to massive unemployment.

💼 The speaker argues that it is not the robots themselves that will take away jobs, but rather the desire of capital to reduce costs and pay lower wages.

🌍 The focus should be on defending decent incomes and people's right to a decent income, rather than solely on automation and robots.

👥 The importance of focusing on labor relations instead of technology in political struggle.

🤖 Certain jobs involving human relations are essential and cannot be replaced by robots or AI.

💼 Childcare and education jobs are underpaid and under-resourced, leading to a lack of people in these roles.

💰 The need for public resources to support essential jobs where there is a shortage of workers.

🤖 In the 21st century, the focus should be on jobs that require human relations, as they cannot be easily replaced by robots.

🌍 Since the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a rise in authoritarian reactionary political regimes globally, even in countries with a history of democratic elections.

🔒 To maintain a functional state in the face of this threat, we need to adopt a 21st century developmental state approach that addresses the needs of the people.

📜 Democratic politics has failed to improve people's welfare and invest in public services due to the control of capital over the state.

💼 Politicians elected in standard democratic politics prioritize the interests of capital over the delivery of necessary services.

🌐 As a result, politicians who focus on divisive identity politics and exclusionary policies gain popularity.

📚 Divisive appeals and identity politics distract people from the limitations of the state and the unequal distribution of resources.

🌍 The state's capacity affects the delivery of services and people's reliance on alternative agendas.

🔍 There are challenges in navigating the complexities of the current situation.