{"id":77347,"date":"2026-08-13T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/lost-jobs-inequality-rogue-agents-why-are-we-accepting-oligarchs-ai-agenda-robert-reich\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:55:25","slug":"lost-jobs-inequality-rogue-agents-why-are-we-accepting-oligarchs-ai-agenda-robert-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/lost-jobs-inequality-rogue-agents-why-are-we-accepting-oligarchs-ai-agenda-robert-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs\u2019 AI agenda? | Robert Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/empsit.pdf\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> data released on Friday. In addition, May and June\u2019s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>As if this weren\u2019t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/13\/lost-jobs-inequality-ai-oligarchs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June\u2019s job numbers were revised downward, &#8230; <a title=\"Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs\u2019 AI agenda? | Robert Reich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/lost-jobs-inequality-rogue-agents-why-are-we-accepting-oligarchs-ai-agenda-robert-reich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs\u2019 AI agenda? | Robert Reich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}