celeste drake, thank you for joining us on talking business.ally has been falling over the 20 years that you�*ve been gathering this particular data, and at a sharper rate in the last few years. why do you think that is? well, there are several reasons for this. one thing that we should say at the outset is some of this has to do with covid, because during the covid period, many workers lostjobs and many of the others were on reduced hours. so that was a decrease for worker income, even as the share of global income that was going to capital was increasing and that was going then therefore mostly into the hands of the wealthy. but it�*s notjust covid. technology has a lot to do with this. and as we bring in new kinds of technology, whether it�*s robotics, whether it�*s artificial intelligence, that has a positive shock, a really positive effect on labour productivity. but, unfortunately, what we�*ve seen is that workers have not shared fairly in the gains from that productivity. so it�*s those two things. and we would also add from a particular

tadhg enright asked the ilo's celeste drake why a smaller share of the economic pie was going to workersobs, and many of the others were on reduced hours. so, that was a decrease for worker income, even as the share of global income that was going to capital was increasing, and that was then therefore mostly into the hands of the wealthy. but it's notjust covid — technology has a lot to do with this and, as we bring in new kinds of technology, whether it's robotics or artificial intelligence, that has a positive shock, a really positive effect on labour productivity. but unfortunately, what we've seen is that workers have not shared fairly in the gains from that productivity. does this growing disparity between workers and those who own capital, such as land, factories, or patents, concern you? it does concern us, because it means that we're falling behind on what the united nations calls the sdgs — the sustainable development goals. and there are two in particular that are related to this — one is reducing inequalities, but also sdg 10, which isjob creation and decent work. so, it's not