This item is relevant to both us here in the UK, and perhaps even more so to Australia, with its insane mass immigration program. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that the UK capitalists’ use of cheap migrant labour has lowered the productivity of the UK; it has meant that local capitalists have not made the needed investments in productivity-enhancing technology, such as AI and robotics. She said: “productivity in Japan is pretty high. We went to this fascinating place when we were there, which was a factory making robots, but it was robots making robots. It was really quite something.
‘But that use of technology is quite exciting in countries like Japan, but I think we do have a lot to learn from it because our productivity growth has been very poor in Britain.
