This will be a really big deal if it works, and small-scale field tests seem promising. (The quality of the video below is lousy, but it gives you the idea.) The most intriguing thing about Square, though, at least so far, is the conceptual leap that Dorsey may have been uniquely qualified to make: Payment transactions are a kind of social interchange.
Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.