In a recent ZEIT interview, sociologist Hartmut Rosa makes a striking point: populist movements do not only mobilise anger. They also mobilise hope, action and the feeling that something can still be changed.
Peter Uffelmann liefert in seinem Essay „Die dysregulierte Gesellschaft“ (2026) eine bemerkenswerte Antwort: Viele Menschen erleben die Gegenwart als permanenten Zustand von Unsicherheit, Veränderung und Kontrollverlust.
What happens when automation creates enormous economic gains, but those gains increasingly accrue to capital rather than labour?
A new NBER working paper by Daron Acemoglu, A. Arda Gitmez and Mehdi Shadmehr, Automation and Repression, examines precisely this question.