Ian Verrender

So it's the cost of transporting and actually refining the oil, which is soared in price as well, is adding to those pressures.

Well, it's quite incredible that it's just slipped right off the radar.

No one is even looking at it anymore.

Well, it's just proceeding at pace.

There was an interesting article out over the weekend from Stanford University from a

from a fellow who's been researching artificial intelligence and technology for forever, it seems, Erik Brynjolfsson.

I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce his name.

And look, he's made the point that

we're not really considering what the longer term impact of artificial intelligence will be, particularly on the workforce.

And his research essentially shows, because what he's done is he's looked through the payrolls, thousands upon thousands of payrolls in American companies.

And what he's saying is that it's already starting to impact younger workers.

So 16% of younger workers are

are having trouble getting a job.

And we're talking about highly skilled workers here.

And if they're involved in any way in software development, it's 20% of younger workers.

So what is happening is, you've seen it, you can see it in law firms, all sorts of professions.

Nobody wants to hire the entry-level graduates anymore to do the grunt work that, you know, the partners, the senior partners used to do to learn the ropes.

They've done their degree.

They've done all the postgraduate, you know, courses that they needed to do.

Then you go into the workforce, the real workforce, and you get told, well, you make the coffees, you do everything, and then you can do this.