Name: 【TEDx】We need a platform, but we've built a cage. | Anthony Painter | TEDxBrum
Uploaded: 2017-08-10T15:03:08.000Z
Duration: 12 min 42 s
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You walk around in a slumber most of the time,

The imperative

and you may see something, hear something, experience something,

I'm involved in education on the east side of London.

who were studying to be care workers on a college course.

They were coming to the end of their course.

decided that they should be actively seeking work.

Naturally, this started to intrude in their studies.

They gave up, they left their course, they didn't get the qualifications.

because they didn't become the care workers they dreamed of:

put their families on different trajectories...

We needed them to get those qualifications.

Then, I started to piece things together.

Over a million people getting emergency food packages per year.

received sanctions from the benefit office?

The same year we convicted 220 tax evaders.

That says something very big about our priorities as a society.

This week, we've heard about one of our major sports retailers,

who basically treats workers like cogs in a machine,

doesn't pay them the money that they're due.

Piecing it together, piecing it together.

from JPMorgan Chase Institute, in the U.S.

It shows that three quarters of the lowest-earning workers

face variations in their monthly income of 30 percent from month to month,

that all the jobs that we have created since 1995

Let me tell you what non-standard work is:

temp work, low-pay, and part-time work, low-paying self-employment.

Piecing it together, you understand the insecurity that people are facing.

I grew up not far from the Rover factory, in Longbridge.

I can remember friends getting jobs there,

and telling me what a great job [it was]:

Rover, at its peak, employed 20-odd thousand people.

There are only 400 people on that site now.

There's a lot of talk about technology, about automation,

about artificial intelligence, about big data.

And the impact that's going to have on the world of work.

We don't yet know, but it's likely to add to the insecurity.

If there are doctors, lawyers, and accountants in the audience,

People predict that the age of insecurity is coming.

a system of tax, of benefits, of tax credits,

that is so convoluted, so intrusive, so complex, so difficult, so coercive,

We should be pushing back against the insecurity:

We're spending tens of billions of pounds

on what is basically a patched up, broken system,

a system that leaves 37 percent of children in Birmingham

That's the system that we have created, we as a society have created.

We indulge in rhetoric, collectively, about skivers, strivers, shirkers,

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【TEDx】We need a platform, but we've built a cage. | Anthony Painter | TEDxBrum

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