EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

I'm not a comic book nerd, and subscriptions to digitized comics is a thing, but hard copy sales have gone up in recent years.

Up from where? Enough to make it a viable business against rising East London rents?

Up from where? Enough to make it a viable business against rising East London rents?

I was responding to your point that it was likely due to new methods of consumption rather than a collapse of the pound due to Brexit. I.e.:

I suspect that the digitisation of print and the changing consumption models has more to do with it than pure Brexit.

If your point was about renting costs in London, I happily concur that this likely makes it tough for any independent shop.

I didn't hear it but I would hazard a guess he was from Swanage

Thanks for that link.
Have sent it on to a few friends.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37680680

60% of agricultural workers in NI are from outside the UK... "we've exhausted the ways to get local workers".

So it's back to "businesses are telling porkies" VS "nobody wants to do it here"

Not forum-favourite Bikemonger, rather I see a google result for Malcolm Borg, West Suffolk Wheelers & Tri Club.

There's a LinkedIn for Malcolm Borg, Director of The Cycle Clinic LTD.

Hello @thecycleclinic.

Second caller reminded me why I never listen to Any Answers; I couldn't make it to the end of his first sentence.

Second caller reminded me why I never listen to Any Answers

It's an odd programme. I've heard some fascinating people who you'd never usually hear from - a Syrian recently left Aleppo, a youth worker from Yorkshire working with young Muslim kids, etc.

But yes that dude was full bat shit, fearing a EU-Nazi Super State.

My various points are that changes in consumption models, driven by broader technology trends, in the context of publishing space that has been struggling for market share as they compete against a burgeoning choice of entertainment options and rising retail space prices may form a larger part of the issue. The drop in exchange rate might have been the final straw for the camel, but the final straw is not wholly responsible.

This article brings up something I've pondered for awhile. I we're all encouraged to get jobs that allow for upward mobility, who does the work that offers none. Will the Czech workers in this article go home to something with upward mobility or do some of us just have the face the fat that dead end jobs are a reality for us?

The drop in exchange rate might have been the final straw for the camel, but the final straw is not wholly responsible.

Any other metaphors you want to explain to me?

more metaphors than you can poke a stick at

we're all encouraged to get jobs that allow for upward mobility, who does the work that offers none. .... or do some of us just have the face the fat that dead end jobs are a reality for us?

I guess this is the problem with a post-Thatcher Baby-Boomer led society. People don't value work for work's sake. They have aspirations and think if they work hard without delivering an increased economic output for their employers they deserve better in life.

As one intern from an extremely wealthy US family once said to me;

"the world needs ditch diggers too".

Surely the goal is that one day the ditches will be dug by robots?

In to which our lifeless bodies will be neatly disposed.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0199678111

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

In theory technology could replace dumb work, leaving us all to do fun work/offer a basic income or food or whatever...

The problem is that the technology may end up in the hand of a select few that aren't interested in that model of society as they have shareholders to report to.

Well yes.

I think this is quite a complicated issue that can't be solved by posting on a forum.

Can we get back to how we successfully exit the EU?

Sergei Brin identifies technology replacing jobs as one of the greatest upcoming disruptions to society.

Ironically he's using a technology buzzword "disruption" ;)

It's not perse bad: There's so much social work, volunteering work, we could be spending more time with people... But if it's sold as or results in "no work, no money, no dignity" then we won't be better off :/

Isn't that another issue that can't be resolved by posting on forum? ;)

1 - Don't leave at all
2 -Leave EU, not EEC too if you must
3 - Don't do any throw toys out of the pram behaviour when you are the weak party in negotiations... Thanks the EU for the past trade, try to find common ground, try to make some friends...
4 - Do Not Also Leave EEC

;)

I suspect that textile workers during the Industrial Revolution would be happy to point out to Mr. Brin that this isn't really a new phenomenon.

Artificial Intelligence within a capitalist economic framework is a recipe for disaster.

I'd think that AI ditch diggers would be unethical- mechanical slaves, unless we paid them I suppose.

There's the one about eggs. And your mum.