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Wednesday 6th of May 2026

Artificial intelligence But for some, the fear that AI may one day take white-collar jobs is already a reality.  In an ingenious study published this summer, US researchers showed that within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT,  copywriters and graphic designers on major  online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings. This suggested not only that generative AI was taking their work, but also that it devalues the work they do still carry out. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, November 10, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Economics Many economic policies that have had painful consequences for working-class Americans probably exist because white-collar Americans are the ones calling the shots. Nicholas Carnes, White-Collar Government © 2019 Kwiple.com
Globalization The biggest economic winners of the last 40 years were highly skilled natives living in superstar cities. They risk becoming the biggest losers of the next era. To quote the scary new mantra: if you can do your job from anywhere, someone anywhere can do your job. Lesser-skilled workers in western countries have been through this already, when jobs in factories, call centres and back office were offshored. Parisian graphic designers and New York bankers may be about to find out what that feels like. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, March 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary the office (thə ô'fis), n. A place where you must take stupid stuff seriously © 2016 Kwiple.com
Lobbyists Less than 1 percent of organizations represent the poor. Although blue-collar workers are 24 percent of the population, they are only 1 percent of economic organizations in Washington. White-collar workers make up less than 10 percent of the public, but they are represented by almost 74 percent of economic organizations in DC. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Great Democracy © 2070 Kwiple.com
Participation in politics The shortage of people from the working class in our legislatures and the overrepresentation of white-collar Americans means that tax policies are more regressive, business regulations are more probusiness, and social safety net programs are thinner. Who wins and who loses in this country depends in large part on who governs. Nicholas Carnes, White-collar Government © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements deter “crime in the suites” © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union White-collar crime pays big time © 2015 Kwiple.com
White-collar government Across the board, white-collar government is good for white-collar Americans and bad for the less fortunate. Nicholas Carnes, White-Collar Government © 2019 Kwiple.com
White-collar government Because our legislatures are so imbalanced along social class lines, the opinions of the blue-collar workers who make up a majority of the population are all but excluded from this process. The views lawmakers refine and enlarge are not those of the public: they are those of white-collar Americans. Nicholas Carnes, White-Collar Government © 2019 Kwiple.com
White-collar workers What we are witnessing is the emergence of a new white-collar working class, subject all the regimentation and discipline of its predecessor, but lacking the latter's solidarity, its willingness to organize and to fight its cause in the workplace. Simon Head, Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Humans Dumber © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
White-collar workers Whatever history they have had is a history without events; whatever common interests they have do not lead to unity; whatever future they have will not be of their own making. If they aspire at all, it is to a middle course, at a time when no middle course is available, and hence to an illusory course in an imaginary society. C. Wright Mills, White Collar © 2015 Kwiple.com