> an estimated 38 percent of the EU budget will be going to farm subsidies. Farms as a share of total employment are quite small (about 2 percent) That really

> an estimated 38 percent of the EU budget will be going to farm subsidies. Farms as a share of total employment are quite small (about 2 percent) That really is astonishing. However, I suspect the comfort drawn from industrial revolution comparisons is the idea that the automation revolution will be merely as disruptive as the industrial revolution rather than rendering half the population incapable of competing in all likely future versions of the job marketplace.