Issue 040 · Monday, 3 August 2026
The route out is not hiring either
4 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilEveryone gives the same advice about AI: learn a trade. The sector that trade sits in lost eighty-one thousand jobs last year.
- James VahidThe sector recommended as machine-proof shed 81,000 jobs in a year, and the fall was in employees rather than the self-employed.
- Ada OkaforThe test people use for whether a machine takes a job is whether a machine could do the work. That is not the test that decides.
- Elena MarshSince June I have asked what people are meant to retrain into. I assumed an answer existed and nobody had looked it up.