Big Think TV | Big Think: In 2002, Richard Florida published his celebrated book The Rise of the Creative Class about the growth of the creative workforce and its implications for the rest of the culture and the economy. When the book was re-issued with updates ten years later, some of Florida's critics wondered whether the book should be given a new title: The Rise and Fall of the Creative Class.
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I like what Mr. Florida has to say about trying to bring more people into the creative class. I feel like expanding that class would inevitably spark more new ideas and innovations, simply due to the fact that there are more people putting a creative process in their mind. However, that would mean educating more people to be ready to enter a creative workforce, which could be a problem with amount of student debt rising. The other problem could potentially be having too many in the creative class at one point. Would there start to be a depleting number of creative jobs available? I doubt that this would really happen, but it is something to consider, especially if the economy starts to decline again, therefore meaning less money for creative industries like entertainment.
I think Florida made an interesting point in that the creative class doesn't include only people in the arts. There are creative positions in other disciplines that are starting to become a huge part of our modern society. Science and technology, research and development, etc., aren't fields that one would normally think of when thinking of the "creative class." However, those positions are extremely creative. Research and development is nothing but coming up with new ideas. Looking at it from this point of view, I don't know if there really can be such a thing as too many people in the creative class as the student above me commented.
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