WORLD13h ago
As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
AB
ABC News Australia
Original Reporting
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Corporations previously leveraged weakened unions to depress wages and consolidated market power to raise prices. Relying on these same business entities to utilize artificial intelligence in solving modern socioeconomic crises like inequality and political polarization is unrealistic.
WHY IT MATTERS
This story matters because it challenges the widespread assumption that technological advancements like AI will be used by businesses to resolve systemic economic inequality and social polarization.
Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
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