Found this piece about minimum wage catching up with entry level grad pay a bit odd. www.ft.com/content/b436... 1. Re min wage reducing incentive to go to uni. Yes at the margin, but I struggle to believe this can be a big effect? Going to uni raises lifetime earnings, not just at age 25.

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There are close to one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) - but before we can fix this problem, we need to understand who these young people really are. We set this out in today's @resfoundation.bsky.social report... www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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My hope is that the widespread use of AI slop creates a bigger albeit still niche market for good writing/research. Whereas I'm fairly surely it will kill churnalism written by bored humans.

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Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do. Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

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Yes. I do find it odd that we’ve spent 15 plus miserable years living with the grim consequences of low productivity growth whilst fretting about the potential impacts of faster productivity growth.

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