Matthew Cole
@mattcole.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
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Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
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If you want another shocking revelation, he’s somehow the chair of the resolution foundation now (among other jobs)
www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/tea...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/tea...
David Willetts • Resolution Foundation
The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS is the President of the Resolution Foundation and Chair of the UK Space Agency. He is a visiting Professor at King’s College London and Chair of the Foundation for Science...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you want another shocking revelation, he’s somehow the chair of the resolution foundation now (among other jobs)
www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/tea...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/tea...
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Also the government's line that graduates have benefitted financially from their education, and therefore should pay more in tax, is nuts.
It didn't suddenly get three times more financially beneficial to study at a uni in 2012 versus 2011 – in fact the opposite has happened
It didn't suddenly get three times more financially beneficial to study at a uni in 2012 versus 2011 – in fact the opposite has happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Also the government's line that graduates have benefitted financially from their education, and therefore should pay more in tax, is nuts.
It didn't suddenly get three times more financially beneficial to study at a uni in 2012 versus 2011 – in fact the opposite has happened
It didn't suddenly get three times more financially beneficial to study at a uni in 2012 versus 2011 – in fact the opposite has happened
The left wants more progressive taxes and a tax on capital gains/wealth. They want this invested in public assets that pay social dividends. They want denationalisation of key social monopolies.
Where is this straw man coming from?
Where is this straw man coming from?
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The left wants more progressive taxes and a tax on capital gains/wealth. They want this invested in public assets that pay social dividends. They want denationalisation of key social monopolies.
Where is this straw man coming from?
Where is this straw man coming from?
surely there’s a book on this somewhere
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
surely there’s a book on this somewhere
Seems like you are celebrating a narrow use case of AI as if it disproves the broad criticisms of AI across the political spectrum. Why else would you use that cringe meme?
It perpetuates a tech industry narrative that limited efficiencies are worth the environmental costs.
It perpetuates a tech industry narrative that limited efficiencies are worth the environmental costs.
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Seems like you are celebrating a narrow use case of AI as if it disproves the broad criticisms of AI across the political spectrum. Why else would you use that cringe meme?
It perpetuates a tech industry narrative that limited efficiencies are worth the environmental costs.
It perpetuates a tech industry narrative that limited efficiencies are worth the environmental costs.
Is that why energy consumption and consumer prices have skyrocketed across the US?
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Is that why energy consumption and consumer prices have skyrocketed across the US?