{"id":95482,"date":"2026-09-06T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95482"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:28:35","slug":"there-is-no-shortage-of-work-in-britain-there-is-just-a-shortage-of-funding-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/06\/there-is-no-shortage-of-work-in-britain-there-is-just-a-shortage-of-funding-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no shortage of work in Britain; there is just a shortage of funding to do it."},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In summary, there is no shortage of work in Britain; there is just a shortage of funding to do it.<\/p>\n

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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,
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