Nothing is permanent, innovate, disrupt, adapt or die... So this parable is about Silicon Valley (businessman) crushing the complacent entrenched corporations (fisherman) with new technology? Am I missing something?
No, the fisherman represents fishermen, and the businessman represents businessmen.
It's about just what it says it's about: the businessman crushing everyone else to satisfy his own greed, and destroying the quality of life for anyone that's not rich.
You know, like real life, as oppposed to the self-serving silicon valley fantasy where getting rich is somehow socially beneficial.
The businessman didn't "crush" anyone, he just made the fishing industry a thousand times more efficient through technology. You see the fisherman losing his job, not the thousands of villagers who now have cheaper food.
The problem is all the wealth created from this went to the businessman alone and the fisherman was left with nothing. Because we stupidly live in a society where everyone depends on the value of their labor to get by. When technology makes your labor obsolete, as it should, then you have nothing.
Really? Because the only people able to get paid after their work has been automated (textiles, manufacturing) are those who are able to collect from social safety nets, and they barely get by.
I'm all for a more equitable distribution of wealth though, through a combination of a much more solid web of social programs and higher taxes levied on top recipients of income (I dare not confuse those with "earners").
