The question of how to pay for mass retraining and upskilling programs necessary for the workers whose mundane jobs are handed to robots went undiscussed.
And, well, just think of how many digital skills and AI upskilling programs EU governments could have invested in if Facebook had been paying taxes on its per country revenue instead of seeking to pay back the minimum possible.
"While Senator Sanders plays politics and makes misleading accusations, we are expending real money and effort upskilling people with our Career Choice program," the company writes.
For its part, Amazon called Sanders' earlier statements "inaccurate and misleading," adding, "While Senator Sanders plays politics and makes misleading accusations, we are expending real money and effort upskilling people with our Career Choice program".
To deliver the program, Facebook is partnering with digital upskilling firm Freeformers which will supply the training across the six EU countries.
Another overlap between the Pi Foundation and Code Club is that both run programs aiming to train teachers how to teach kids computer science and digital making — a key bottleneck when it comes to upskilling the next generation, despite government-backed changes to the schools curriculum in England that mandate teaching kids programming.
"There is also the potential to utilise the council's Change Programme to provide the necessary training and upskilling support to enable local people to benefit from the employment and business creation opportunities this will present".
In developing countries in particular, any such efforts of curriculum development will need to involve an investment in upskilling medical educators.
"Why aren't we upskilling those people?
The modern labour market requires upskilling and reskilling.
And we wean ourselves off migration, upskilling the workforce, replacing low-wage jobs with machines.
