Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“The next feminist issue. Ignoring the obvious that if the numbers of people in work fall so does the tax take, and the ability to give away taxpayers’ money. But if one follows where the “axe” it likely to fall it is in industries with a lot of routine admin occupations, and of course such routine office jobs (with flexibility, work/life balance, air conditioning etc.) are filled by females. In the US the contraction in such jobs has been more than matched by new productive jobs. But here …… well not so so far. So how to protect all these redundant females ? Just hand out a universal benefit to them! As the cushy jobs contract expect a feminist outcry, specially as it’ll effect “journalism” which these days consists of cutting and pasting reports from agencies, press releases or social media.”

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