It is therefore perfectly reasonable to raise the question of whether, when we talk about the problems of the new knowledge-based economy and of the new digital economy, which, as far as I know have created unemployment rather than employment in Europe, we are not replacing an inability to deal with the problems of unemployment in the present by what has largely been - and still is today - empty rhetoric about the problems of employment in the future...
Det er derfor relevant at spørge om, at man, når man begynder at tale om problemerne med den nye vidensøkonomi, den nye digitale økonomi - der, så vidt jeg ved, endnu ikke har skabt beskæftigelse i Europa, for ikke at tale om arbejdsløshed - ikke er i gang med at erstatte den manglende evne til at gøre noget ved de aktuelle arbejdsløshedsproblemer med noget, der i vid udstrækning og indtil videre blot er retorik om fremtidens beskæftigelsesproblemer ...