{"id":5541,"date":"2013-08-27T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:03:34","slug":"creative-work-is-the-answer-to-inequality-in-their-own-words-big-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/creative-work-is-the-answer-to-inequality-in-their-own-words-big-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Work is the Answer to Inequality &#124; In Their Own Words &#124; Big Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The main message of my work over the past decade or more has been a fairly basic message and that\u2019s that every single human being is creative.\u00a0 But as with anything one has to put statistical parameters around what that means, and what I\u2019ve found, is that our society is really divided into people who are principally paid to use their creativity at work and those who maybe are quite creative but they\u2019re principally paid to use their physical labor or they\u2019re involved in low-skill service work.<br \/>\nIn any event, there are about 40 million Americans who are privileged to be members of what I call the creative class.\u00a0 There are people in science and technology.\u00a0 There are people who are entrepreneurs who work in research and development.\u00a0 They are architects, they\u2019re designers; they work in arts and culture, the entertainment and media.\u00a0 They are the kind of classic knowledge-based professionals that great management thinkers like Peter Drucker taught us about, people in business and management and healthcare and law and education.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/in-their-own-words\/creative-work-is-the-answer-to-inequality\">Creative Work is the Answer to Inequality | In Their Own Words | Big Think<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main message of my work over the past decade or more has been a fairly basic message and that\u2019s that every single human being is creative.\u00a0 But as with anything one has to put statistical parameters around what that means, and what I\u2019ve found, is that our society is really divided into people who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/creative-work-is-the-answer-to-inequality-in-their-own-words-big-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Work is the Answer to Inequality &#124; In Their Own Words &#124; Big Think&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}