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A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED

Struggling communities don’t need handouts — they need bold new ways to root wealth. Meet Molly Hemstreet — a TED Fellow, Southern Appalachia native and cofounder of worker support network the Industrial Commons — who’s flipping the script on generational poverty by turning textile waste into $9-per-pound yarn and factory workers into business owners. Discover…

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Struggling communities don’t need handouts — they need bold new ways to root wealth. Meet Molly Hemstreet — a TED Fellow, Southern Appalachia native and cofounder of worker support network the Industrial Commons — who’s flipping the script on generational poverty by turning textile waste into $9-per-pound yarn and factory workers into business owners. Discover how her long-haul approach is rebuilding rural economies stitch by stitch, proving that opportunity grows when we stop extracting and start empowering. (Recorded at TED Fellows Films 2025 on April 8, 2025)

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  1. @ZhedongMao-f1o

    September 1, 2025 at 11:38 am

    产业转移之后,如何继续当地的经济发展确实是一个很难的问题。这种利用原有优势继续发展相关产业的做法十分成功😊

  2. @mccarth1

    September 1, 2025 at 11:45 am

    LOCAL OWNERSHIP!! LOCAL OWNERSHIP! Ban private equity!

  3. @blucat016

    September 1, 2025 at 11:56 am

    THIS! Every person should take ownership of their own work and be paid as such, not by corporations that just say so because the shareholders want more money squeezed out of it.

    • @SQ_SherryQ

      September 1, 2025 at 1:26 pm

      Yes!

    • @Rka-s2q

      September 1, 2025 at 3:07 pm

      No. It’s not work like this. Don’t be stupid. People won’t do what politicians or big corporations want.

    • @adamdrake6242

      September 1, 2025 at 8:32 pm

      There are two challenges; where the money comes from to start and what happens when the business loses money for a time. I hope they keep figuring it out.

  4. @JengsuraRianpracha

    September 1, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    Future vision is fantastic.

  5. @biltre271

    September 1, 2025 at 1:32 pm

    make the bourgeoisie face el paredón

  6. @urbanstrencan

    September 1, 2025 at 1:41 pm

    Great video, we need to make a working class back 🤟

  7. @SaltVinegar2010

    September 1, 2025 at 2:42 pm

    This didn’t explain much & was more of a business advertisement 😂

    • @DreaminLive19

      September 3, 2025 at 9:03 am

      Yeah this isn’t really about wealth more about sustainable businesses and growing a local brand 😅

  8. @Rka-s2q

    September 1, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    Why to rebuild a working class? It’s already working or not need to work. You won’t rebuild a working class top down. It won’t work like this because people won’t do what people want from them. They are aware, and you are an idiot if you try. Sorry that’s the truth.

  9. @sanyabrestify

    September 1, 2025 at 3:49 pm

    Надо единый стандарт для стиральной машины размер скорость отжимании цвет количество программ 5 не больше

  10. @MartialArtUK

    September 1, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    Just the title is an insult. We need to abolish the class system.

    • @Graaskaegg

      September 2, 2025 at 2:36 am

      It’s a way to describe factors, not a “how to organise societies “.

    • @MartialArtUK

      September 2, 2025 at 3:20 am

      ​@Graaskaegg if that was the mindset it would be titled as so .

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  25. @Yourmission9

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  26. @aria-i4f3c

    September 2, 2025 at 5:20 am

    People can not earn money from areas they don’t know. Molly is a skilled manager who understands the fundamentals of employee management. She inspires the workers to see and create their own future, and lets them know their future is in their own hands. As we all know, it is unfair between urban and rural areas, so creative opportunities for communities are a good measure. I can learn more management skills through this video.

  27. @Aria-didi

    September 2, 2025 at 5:20 am

    People can not earn money from areas they don’t know. Molly is a skilled manager who understands the fundamentals of employee management. She inspires the workers to see and create their own future, and lets them know their future is in their own hands. As we all know, it is unfair between urban and rural areas, so creative opportunities for communities are a good measure. I can learn more management skills through this video.

  28. @wedoish3350

    September 2, 2025 at 1:45 pm

    NICE ❤

  29. @JoeSmith-jd5zg

    September 2, 2025 at 3:25 pm

    Video has some decent ideas for the short-term. Starting with the great decoupling in the 1970s, human labor has been and will continue trending to zero. Think EXPONENTIALLY, not LINEARLY. Automation and robotics will necessarily replace human workers due to the current economic system. Think about this-today, AI is the WORST it will ever be going forward. It DOESN’T MATTER if AI “creates” 200 million new jobs…AI will solve and execute these new “jobs” much faster than humans will be able to adapt, learn, and fill them. Capital/employee model-it worked great…for quite a while. However, now companies that automate lower their costs, become more competitive. Those that keep higher-cost human labor necessarily fall behind and will go out of business. This creates a system where replacing people with machines is not just likely, but necessary for company survival. There is a way to deal with this humanely, but it would require a full revamp of the social contract and our concept of work. Even capitalists will want this change when unemployment reaches a tipping point and there’s no one left with money to buy the crap they’re selling.

    Reasoning AI Is the Next Big Leap. The future of AI is not just about generating answers, but about “reasoning” breaking down complex problems step-by-step, more like a human brain. Breakthroughs like DeepSeek’s open-source reasoning models are already being incorporated into platforms like GPT and xAI, marking a shift toward more advanced, thoughtful AI. Think EXPONENTIALLY, not LINEARLY.

    There’s a persistent and misleading narrative circulating often perpetuated by short term goal-driven institutions like politicians, universities, and tech company executives, that the future of work is secure. The claim goes: “You just need to learn how to work with AI,” and humans collaborating with AI will outperform either one alone. But recent research, including a landmark study from the University of Virginia, tells a different story. In diagnosing medical conditions, AI alone achieved far greater accuracy than either human doctors or even doctors assisted by AI. The median diagnostic accuracy for the docs using Chat GPT Plus was 76.3%, while the results for the physicians using conventional approaches was 73.7%. Sounds like “a win” at first. However, Chat GPT Plus alone achieved a median diagnostic accuracy of more than 92%. In other words, the comforting idea that humans will always be essential partners to machines is crumbling. In many fields, AI is not just a tool, it is the superior performer. This has staggering implications for the future of work, especially to the often used solution of prior technological displacement that go “You just need to be retrained.” To the group advocating the “retraining solution,” I pose to you this: You have a medical doctor, just finished 8 years of higher education, a low-paid 4-year internship/residency, is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and just got outperformed by automation; what would you have this doctor retrained into that will offer a secure job?

    The result of this, since the United States’ moronic system is based on taxing employees for about 70% of all tax revenue, this will further exacerbate the problem. Tax needs to be based on what’s going on now and in the future not what worked 75 years ago. Oh I know it’s so evil to think, but we might need to tax the companies who are doing the automation. Even if you do that, it’s a win-win. For instance say a company had 1,000 employees in automated away down to 100. 1,000 employees paid federal taxes, including payroll tax, of about 20 million a year. Now the 100 people pay about 2 million a year. However, by automating, the company sees two things: they are no longer paying approximately 60 million in wages and their share of payroll tax, AND since nobody automates to lose money they also have higher profits. What’s so wrong about taxing that company for the $60 million dollars they don’t have to pay anymore and a fair percentage of their additional profits they now make through the automation. Not all the additional profits, but some of them. If you do that there’s a higher tax revenue and more profits for the company. That’s a win-win for the government and for businesses. If humanity, as a whole, weren’t so stupid, we would just adjust as tech progresses to where EVERYONE benefits somewhat from each stage and just move smoothly into the post-labor economy.

    To understand this shift, consider the historical role of the horse and oxen. They were once essential to the economy as sources of power for agriculture, transport, and industry. Technologies like the horse collar and the steel plow dramatically increased their output, making them even more valuable. But then came the steam engine and, later, the internal combustion engine. These machines didn’t just help the horse, but outperformed it entirely. Trains, tractors, and trucks could do the job ten, even a hundred times faster and more powerfully. And from that moment forward, the horse was no longer critical to economic output. It was, in essence, unemployed.

    This is what AI and robotics are doing to human labor. They are not simply replacing the repetitive or the physical; they are increasingly outperforming humans in cognition, strategy, design, and communication. And just like the horse, our value in the economic system will diminish, not from lack of talent or effort, but because machines will do the job better. That’s why we need to start thinking not in terms of retraining, but about restructuring society itself for a world where human labor is no longer essential to production. When the very essence of what makes an entity useful to the current economy is superseded (be that strength, endurance, dexterity, analysis, creativity, empathy, intelligence, persuasion as well as many other qualities) that entity becomes irrelevant to economic output.

    Potential solution. Decentralized AI Ownership: A Bridge Toward Post-Scarcity. While Universal Basic Income (UBI) may serve as an initial economic stopgap, bridging today’s economy with tomorrow’s abundance consider an even more equitable and long-term solution: Decentralizing the ownership of artificial intelligence itself.

    Rather than concentrating the power of AI in the hands of a few corporations or governments, envision a model where AI entities are open-source and collectively owned. This could take the form of assigning each person a digital “share” of an AI system, not unlike a stakeholder’s share in a company. As the AI produces value, whether through intellectual labor, creative output, or autonomous economic participation, those shares would generate dividends distributed directly to individuals.

    This model would ensure that as AI becomes the dominant productive force in society, the wealth it creates is shared universally, not monopolized. It aligns with the principle that the fruits of public knowledge made possible by centuries of human collaboration should benefit everyone, not just a few early adopters or private entities. In practice, this could look like:

    – AI systems running Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) that distribute profits algorithmically.
    – Smart contracts ensuring transparent, equitable income flows based on collective stake.
    – Global “AI cooperatives” where users vote on how AI is used, improved, and deployed.
    – Universal basic compute.

    If AI becomes the primary driver of economic output, then equitable access to its benefits isn’t just fair, it’s necessary to avoid deepening inequality and instability. It provides a scalable, technologically aligned extension to UBI, ensuring people not only have income, but true economic participation in the age of intelligent machines.

    Ultimately, decentralized AI ownership may be the last transition phase before full post-scarcity, when advanced technologies like universal nanofactories or matter compilers render even economic structures obsolete. Until then, however, models like this offer a way to reclaim agency in a world where production no longer requires human hands, and where wealth can, for the first time in history, truly be universal.

    • @sharpsticksnz4112

      September 3, 2025 at 4:25 pm

      A very well written, thoughtful comment. Written by ai? It seems lofty and aspirational… not likely, horses became a play thing for the rich. Maybe people of no economic benefit will become play things for the rich. I expect UBI and sharing of the gains to be very unlikely outcomes. History shows us wealth disparity and it getting worse, I expect that trend to continue. Expect more people homeless and starving in the streets. Enjoy the time you have left.

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  36. @JoshepKaiser

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  37. @AntoniaUrias-f7e

    September 2, 2025 at 10:57 pm

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  39. @MitchellRedding-m5d3c

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  40. @PamAshtiani

    September 2, 2025 at 10:57 pm

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  41. @HyimKeefe

    September 2, 2025 at 10:57 pm

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  42. @KelseyPugh-y2f

    September 2, 2025 at 10:57 pm

    NEX NexulonAI looks steady — no pump and dump vibes here.

  43. @CapitalismDeathSpiral

    September 3, 2025 at 11:11 am

    FACT: No mention of livable wages which are now way over $55/Hour and up to keep up with a gouged economic market of rip offs. No human participation if no livable wages. IF you cannot pay all your human needs in cash daily, then the economy is not working.

  44. @Wroughton-e6l

    September 3, 2025 at 1:50 pm

    And the rural lords will figure out how to funnel that new gain into their pockets. They always do.

  45. @antonleimbach648

    September 3, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    I worked in electronics manufacturing for many years. I loved being on the floor and did well for myself. I’m retired now and boy do I miss it. I had a passion for LEAN manufacturing and 5S and it was not always easy, but I feel like there is something I could give back. We live in eastern Tennessee now and see a lot of potential around me that is not being leveraged.

  46. @noelkelly4354

    September 3, 2025 at 7:57 pm

    How you sell socialism? Don’t use the term ‘socialism’.

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