#creative class

[T]he triple-H population and the precariat are both classes produced by postindustrial, digital soc­iety and as such, they form an entirely diff­erent form of class interest, a line drawn between them and the classes of old: worker, middle class and the rich. What the triple-H people often don’t understand, however, is that most people do not function like them and do indeed still find mean­ing and security in the conventional work life – even the ones who don’t like their jobs find structure and context to their lives and earn a much valued paycheck. The demands for basic income are hence often premature and naive, not least because they over­look the developmental psychology of the population. The triple-H people are children of a new society, and their needs and their solutions are, in the last instance, at odds with the modern, capitalist system. But the group is growing and so is their relative power within the global capitalist economy.

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What pernicious urban byproducts of cultural processing are accreting in the creative city? Allen J. Scott has pointed to the heavy social costs of two-tiered creative cities unfolding within cognitive-cultural capitalism. The gap between the creative class and low wage service underclass inflected by gender, race and ethnicity is widening. Star architects “sign” idiosyncratic buildings as part of global branding campaigns built onto such exclusionary stratifications.