Jacqueline and I were out yesterday, deliberately looking at the work from different directions. Aside from birdwatching, our main focus was the economics of attention, which I will write more about soon, but we also spent time deliberately reframing well-known issues to see whether we could add new angles.
For example, we discussed unemployment and agreed that instead of thinking of it as the absence of useful things to do, we should describe it as a state-imposed prohibition on people doing work society plainly needs because no authorised funding stream connects the worker to the task.
In summary, there is no shortage of work in Britain; there is just a shortage of funding to do it.
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That is totally correct – just walk down most streets in Britain and you can see it wholesale; use public services and marvel how long it takes you to get things done or get what you need.
This is a country that has a plague called ‘austerity’ and one of its pathogens is ‘debt’. It is a strange pathogen because it works psychologically rather than biologically. And once it takes hold, the effects on society are real and devastating.