AI return is usually decided before the tool is bought There is a pattern I keep seeing with AI: A business starts with the product. Which model. Which vendor. Which licence. Which use case looks impressive enough to get through the next leadership meeting. That feels practical. It is usually the first mistake. The better question comes earlier: where, exactly, does the business need to change? Not where could AI be used. Not where could a pilot be demonstrated. Where does margin leak? Where...

When wages get expensive, capital gets creative. Four centuries of evidence show the same feedback loop at work today. The Pattern That Keeps Repeating For the past four hundred years, wages and technology have chased each other in a recurring loop. When labour markets tighten and pay rises, businesses find it profitable to invent machines that replace workers. Those machines raise output per worker but destroy the livelihoods of people whose skills they have made redundant. Average wages...