Alan Kohler

Yeah, I think this is a related question because it comes back to tax again.

I mean, we don't tax enough.

We don't raise enough tax.

to have a livable pension.

So everyone's kind of got to, and I suppose you could regard the compulsory super as a tax.

Yeah.

Which is meant to offset the age pension or at least supplement the age pension.

So if you see it that way, you know, we've got, it's going, that's, you know, yeah, I think that adds to it.

Which are being, well, the NDIS being cut, they think, or hope, maybe.

By the way, the biggest –

The biggest spending item in the budget is hospital funding, which was announced in January as part of the National Hospital Funding Agreement or something with the states.

But because it was already announced a few months ago, nobody cared.

But that's by far, that's $18 billion or something.

PD says the anthropologist David Graeber posited that there's a whole class of salary professionals whose jobs are pointless and stupid and

These jobs are particularly concentrated in the fire sector, that's finance, insurance and real estate.

If AI is able to automate a lot of these pointless jobs into oblivion, then surely society would be better off as the people currently occupying these mindless bureaucratic roles are forced to seek more societally beneficial and useful jobs.

Perhaps the balance will swing towards more socially beneficial and less well-paid jobs such as teachers and nurses.

Yeah, look, I actually wanted to answer this because I think it's a good point and, in fact, I've been reading stuff that points out that all the statements that AI is going to remove all jobs and everything are made by people in those kind of industries and they can see AI replacing those industries, whereas most other industries will not be replaced by AI for a very long time, you know, like trades and all that.

So I think that there is – I think there's a point to what PD is saying.

I should have said, by the way, that I don't agree that all these jobs in finance, insurance and real estate are pointless and stupid.