Productivity per worker is irrelevant if automation means no jobs left for workers to do. If corporations continue to automate jobs, even skilled ones, a robot tax is inevitable, not least to fund th… (View Post)

Non lawyer Churchill also beat lawyer Attlee in 1951 (View Post)

If that continues populist parties of left and right will continue to gain support, even from graduates. A UBI funded by a robot tax also would become inevitable (View Post)

Meanwhile in Australia the Liberal party elect moderate Sussan Ley to be their first female leader as she defeats hard right Angus Taylor. Ley replaces right-winger Peter Dutton after his defeat in t… (View Post)

'The organisers of Pride have been accused of being “anti-democratic” after banning politicians from marches in response to the Supreme Court trans ruling. Event organisers in London, Birmingham… (View Post)