Mateship and the 'fair go'
'There is a remarkable amiability to the culture of Australia. A nation built on immigration, lived in sunshine under large skies, perhaps encourages an openness and friendliness, a willingness to talk to all as equals...
‘Australianness’ as fairness, latest #SenseOfFairness blog
http://senseoffairness.blog/2026/05/05/mateship-and-the-fair-go/
What's fair pay for a bank?
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"It’s fair to say that generally banks aren’t well known for the fairness of their approach to pay. So it was interesting to note the emphasis that UBS, now by far Switzerland’s dominant bank following its 2023 rescue of the failing Credit Suisse, places on the issue of fair pay in its latest, recently issued annual report.
"But the problem is that it seems to this reader at least that the bank may not necessarily be focusing on the right forms of fairness in pay..."
#Fairness #BankersCompensation #Financialisation #FairPay
http://senseoffairness.blog/2026/04/27/whats-fair-pay-for-a-bank/
Belonging, not belongings
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"people do not feel they have a place in society, that their voices are not heard and will not be heard, that they have no agency. They withdraw into fury and anger because they feel that they no longer have a place in which they are welcomed as belonging"
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/07/18/belonging-not-belongings/
What's a Fair Use?, latest #SenseOfFairness blog post, about the #KadreyvMeta decision on #AI training using #copyright materials
It's not as widely reported, in fact the judge himself said:
“this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.”
Inequality in dignity, latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"a lack of fairness in dignity, echoing wider unfairness in society, is fuelling political and social tensions. Many people have the sense that the status status quo isn’t working for them, and are willing to see dramatic change as a result. Byrne is right, we need to be working to close the dignity deficit, to instil a greater fairness, an equality, in dignity"
#Fairness #Dignity #Recognition
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/04/29/fairness-in-dignity-or-the-dignity-deficit/
Poverty isn't bashful, a #SenseOfFairness blog from some years ago disagreeing with a comment from the recently departed #Pope. His sentiments were always right, and as I acknowledged, he did have more true knowledge of poverty than I
http://senseoffairness.blog/2020/06/26/poverty-isnt-bashful/
Fair chance hires, latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"Prison is only temporary for all but the worst offenders. We need to be better at rehabilitation, and we need to do more to reduce recidivism. We need more second chances, and more fair chance employers."
I am happy to confirm as ever that the Sense of Fairness blog is a purely personal endeavour
A just AI transition?
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog, highlighting early work trying to identify the differential impacts of the adoption of #AI on economies and society, and suggest some actions that nations might take. Perhaps unsurprisingly, without such actions it is clear that AI will exacerbate existing #inequalities both between countries and within them
Though I'm cynical about both the A and the I of #AI (and was before the recent start of a re-evaluation), it's clear it will have significant effects on our world, particularly our world of work.
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/01/14/a-just-ai-transition/
Data and inequality
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
A response to the Gini coefficient-obsessed article in this weekend's Financial Times, and a suggestion that what matters to people, and is generating concern now, is not so much #inequality as #unfairness
Because #SquidGame is back, here's my post in response to the first series
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