Month: November 2016
The Future of Work and how Trump’s win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
THE FUTURE OF WORK Mithunkumar Ramalingam and Brian Bailey The second half of 2016 has seen a number of reports and papers suggesting emergent disruption of the structural composition of the Australian workforce, largely through a convergence of technologies that seem likely to drive the automation of work. What might … Continue Reading The Future of Work and how Trump’s win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
Thomas Piketty: Is Increasing Inequality Inevitable? – YouTube
“His (Piketty’s) argument, based on current and historical data, is that wealth is becoming more important because now that the rate of return on capital is higher than the rate of economic growth. When this happens, the gap between rich and poor gets bigger. In the past century wars and … Continue Reading Thomas Piketty: Is Increasing Inequality Inevitable? – YouTube