@Demosthenes

Thanks for coming back to me. I take the issue about unemployment extremely seriously indeed.

A number of issues need to be acknowledged here - not just by politicians but by electorates. First, there is the challenge of climate change. Secondly, there is the challenge of AI/robotics. Thirdly, there is the challenge of understanding economics differently to how we do now, and for a variety reasons. The nexus between effort and hard work and monetary rewards has always been somewhat tenuous, now it is seriously broken.

In the future, I think work will be gradually decoupled from prevailing patterns of financial reward. People will work for others reasons. So how will they survive? I think the way forward is almost certainly going to involve some form of Universal Basic Income for all citizens. (There's not time to go into all the issues surrounding UBI here).

The decline in office work has to be set within a wider picture of political/economic transformation where old rules disappear and new ones emerge. The politics of the future will be about managing this transformation effectively. This cannot happen unless there is a genuine compact between governments and electorates where public trust is a reality not a slogan

Office work needs to be phased out over time, sector by sector. Some office work will remain, but most will go.

In short we need to head towards a 'people-centred', sustainable economics that is properly respectful of the fragility of the earth's ecosystem.