At every level, the social contracts that hold our society together are coming apart at the seams.
Amazing as the advances in artificial intelligence are right now, I humbly suggest that the key global trends that will affect the day-to-day lives of South Africans over the next 12 months are a little more human. Particularly, I am keeping a close eye on invisible borders, broken social contracts and shadow governance.The new version of discrimination is cleverly disguised as seemingly legitimate virtue, but still has the same effect: segregating the rich from the poor.
Redlining refers to the practice of discriminating against individuals based on their postal code, which is often a serviceable proxy of race, therefore allowing biased service providers to effectively discriminate based on race while still being able to claim ignorance. Greenlining is similar, only instead of using one’s address as the proxy for discrimination, eco credentials are used.
For example, there is a community battle taking place in Miami where wealthier existing residents are attempting to block the construction of more affordable housing in their areas. The residents are claiming “environmental impact” concerns as the reason for their resistance to poorer ethnic minority communities moving in next door.
At a macro level, the relationships citizens have with their states has to be redefined as governments the world over struggle to keep the lights on, in a very literal sense. As state service delivery struggles to keep up with collapsing population pyramids, citizens are questioning the rights they give up in exchange for what feels like less and less in return. Governments, in turn, are struggling to subdue waves of unrest.
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