To solve the problem of mass unemployment from automation, profits and tasks must be shared with everyone.

Employers could swiftly solve this by sharing the profit gains from automation with their employees, allocating paid time for upskilling, and democratizing the workplace. However that would mean reduced profits and greater costs, both of which are kryptonite for any business.

A global economic protocol which autonomously routes tasks directly to the person or bot with the required skills, would ensure a workforce resilient to automation by giving workers the choice of ondemand tasks while simultaneously upskilling. The key to achieving this is for individuals to work for skill-based cryptocurrency credits, enabling the economy to be aware of their diverse skillsets and to accurately rank those skills across a distributed network – this is the goal of Peerism.