For while in our private lives we readily embrace technology and the conveniences it facilitates – smartphones, Alexa, the myriad social media platforms, and if we travel, Uber and Airbnb – professionally, we are wary of it, perhaps feeling, as Karl Marx did that “machinery does not just act as a superior competitor to the worker, always on the point of making him superfluous.” Such fears can lead to resistance or, in extreme cases, obstruction, to your efforts.
However, the worst thing of all is that, while the economy has been expanding, income inequality continues to worsen, and has been worsening at a very fast pace. Let us compare: in 2012, the level of income of the 20 per cent of the most-earning residents was five times higher than that of the 20 per cent of the poorest residents.