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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group<br />

Source: ING Luxembourg (2015)<br />

Employment<br />

The values and operational principles of the Sharing Economy place it in a realm between the<br />

capitalist market and the nonprofit sector. As mentioned in the Industry Working Group report,<br />

in the short to mid-term – forty years – tens of thousands of semi-skilled, skilled, and<br />

professional workers will be required to build out and scale up the smart Internet of Things<br />

infrastructure of the Third Industrial Revolution in Luxembourg. This will require a significant<br />

retraining in the skillsets necessary to introduce a smart digital technological platform and<br />

accompanying business models. In the long run, the phase-in of a smart Digital Luxembourg will<br />

ultimately lead to a highly automated capitalist market economy, operated by small<br />

professional and supervisory workforces using advanced analytics, algorithms, and artificial<br />

intelligence. The maturing of this smart infrastructure will lead to a migration of employment<br />

from an increasingly automated capitalist market to the growing social economy. While fewer<br />

human beings will be required to produce goods and services in the market economy, machine<br />

surrogates will play a smaller role in the nonprofit social economy for the evident reason that<br />

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