The World Run by Money - Theory Edition - General Public Edition

Have you ever looked at a masterpiece and not known what to feel, or found art history lectures difficult and boring? This course is structured like an art drama, weaving together the lives and love of Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne so that you can experience painting, music, and storytelling all at once. By following a broadcast-style storytelling script written by the instructor and listening to 10 tracks from a music album dedicated to Modigliani, you will understand the works naturally and remember them for a long time, rather than simply memorizing facts. Experience a new way of appreciating art where painting, music, and literature connect into a single story.

We, the people of modern society, live repetitive lives, going to work at roughly the same time every day and leaving at roughly the same time as well. Would you believe that the origins of work, which we take so much for granted, date all the way back to the Age of Exploration more than 500 years ago? From the moment Columbus arrived in the New World at the end of the 15th century, humanity’s systems of labor and economics began to undergo enormous change. The sea became a vast stage for transporting gold and silver, spices, and even “labor,” while this massive system of trade and exploitation triggered the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries—and the Industrial Revolution created the culture of work that continues to this day. The steam engine and countless factories that emerged during this process became catalysts that completely transformed the very concept of labor. Hourly wages, the division of labor, mass production— the way we work today was truly established during this period. And now, we are entering another great turning point: the age of AI. Artificial intelligence and automation technologies are causing some occupations to disappear while creating new forms of labor. This change is by no means sudden. It is the highlight of a 500-year historical domino effect that began in the Age of Exploration, passed through the Industrial Revolution, and has continued to the present. If the Age of Exploration had not led to the Industrial Revolution, the labor of our time might look entirely different. That is why this class reinterprets the course of human history from the Age of Exploration → the Industrial Revolution → modern labor. History will be presented not merely as the past, but as an important key to understanding the changes in the work we do today and the work humanity will do in the future.