inequality & income & the bleeding obvious

Check the graphs in this op-ed piece from the Washington Post. Especially the one about productivity and median income, and isn't it easy to spot that the writer is missing one very obvious point in why productivity goes up without income increasing accordingly: It's the technology, stupid!

And technology is just one of many, many factors that very obviously explain why income is not going to rise for the majority of people in the west in future years. Now, let's try and find ONE politician brave enough to admit this to the electorate...

Rise of the Machines

Machines are taking over more and more financial transactions. Meaning that the cut-throat world of finance is now being measured more and more by the nano-second. Interesting also to read the reader comments. Including one guy who asks if America will become the first genuine communist society on earth. Something which reminds me of a piece I read about communism in modern America, where they talked to a commie who suggested that Sarah Palin was the most socialist of the mainstream political candidates. Sorry, I meant to write lamestream. But of course!

Tech & politique?

Endelig en kommentar som sier noe fornuftig om hvordan teknologisk utvikling kan og vil påvirke politiske beslutningsprosesser. Dette etter at det ble avholdt en «historisk» fjernsynsdebatt ifm det forestående britiske parlamentsvalget.

Hm, kanskje Droneland må omdøpe taglinjen sin fra «poptrash & politique» til «tech & politique» nå? Watch this space!