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Just read that within hours of Lidl opening its first ever pub in Belfast, a fight broke out, police were called and a man taken to hospital. I'm not surprised really - you wouldn't get that in a Waitrose pub.
There's also two other issues which, post-COVID, don't seem to be discussed as much as they need to be.
Firstly, with more and more jobs becoming redundant because of AI, how are people going to be 'funded' when less people will be working? The same could be said for governments, because I can't see the likes of Amazon picking up the income slack!
Secondly, AI isn't just going to see off blue collar jobs, white collar and the professions are equally at risk. It's hard to think accountancy for example, will need people to do the job before too long. So what is going to happen to people staring down the barrel of little or no work opportunities in the future?
I certainly recall reading a lot about the need to consider creating a universal income and the practicalities of doing so, pre-COVID, but the conversation seems to have dried up.
I think Stephen Hawkins prediction that the unused human brain would become useless in time, frighteningly probable.
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Parkinson's Law. Work expands to fill the time available.
Back in the late 1960s on a planning course at Central London Poly we spent a term working on projects which envisaged the huge increase in recreation facilities that would be needed as a result of a much shorter working week which would inevitably result from automation. The average working week barely shortened.
Over the years similar scenarios were built up around computerisation, robots and now it's AI.
A major public inquiry then took a month, the report a couple hundred pages and the recommendations were implemented soon after. Now such an inquiry takes several years and millions of pages, dozens of lawyers and hundreds of witnesses.
Then there's the dozens of services now available that weren't even dreamed of back then. AI will no doubt lead to many more.
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