Disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems | Richard Partington
By Richard Partington
Alan Milburn says youth unemployment has no quick fixes – an idea with an important lesson for the wider economy
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Is AI the true enemy, or just a convenient distraction from systemic failure?
New piece on why moral panics around technology are often just masks for structural decay. Instead of fighting the machine, we should be auditing the foundation.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/brandonbedard/p/the-ai-scapegoat
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Where are the "unimagined jobs"?
Tech elites claim AI displacement will create millions of new roles, but the economic floor is quietly emptying out. We aren't automating muscle; we are automating cognitive task execution.
Hoping for spontaneous job booms is a flaw in compute logic. We don’t need an employment miracle—we need a new economic operating system.
Read the full system architecture brief:
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'Money is trust'
Money is usually seen as a store of value or a means of exchange but these functions depend on its manifestation of trust.
We trust money is acceptable to others (in the form we want to use from paper money to digital payments); we trust its value is (at least in the medium term) relatively stable.
When our trust declines so does money's stability (inflation, barter exchange). So, without our trust money cannot work!
South Korean power companies expand global presence as Korea East-West Power completes 198MW Guam plant and Korea Southern Power advances North American BESS projects, while securing international awards and strengthening safety measures amid energy transition initiatives
South Korea's sixth oil tanker successfully transits Red Sea since Strait of Hormuz blockade, with government providing 24-hour monitoring and safety support to ensure stable crude oil supply amid regional maritime tensions
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