Sublime

The intermittent nature of today’s careers creates an unprecedented set of problems for social insurance. Such mechanisms that were designed for linear career paths are ill-fitted to respond to the needs of individuals whose working lives have become increasingly diverse, discontinuous and multiform. Because traditional social insurance is often li

democracy and participation; openness to lifelong learning and experimentation; equity and fairness – the worth of every individual; valid information and informed choice; enduring respect for the human side of enterprise.

This is not just about creating taskforces and commissioning ideas and research. It’s also about encouraging a more hopeful, forward-looking culture. This is the mark of some of the most able and creative politicians,

individuals. But as well as an economic and political program, it is a social and cultural project, an everyday sensibility and rationality underpinned by ideas of choice, entrepreneurialism, competition, and meritocracy. Neoliberalism has insinuated itself into “the nooks and crannies of everyday life” to become a hegemonic, quotidian sensibility.

Such enhancement of diversity in the individual then in turn allows for an exponential rise in the diversity of a society as a whole, forming a positive feedback loop. A multicultural, cosmopolitan environment that has a consistent and genuine inter-class, cross-field and cross-cultural interaction is therefore most likely to allow for hybridity am