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The article analyzes the sustainability of the pension system in Spain, emphasizing that, despite the alarmist projections of past decades, the system is sustainable and calls for a broader debate that includes wages, productivity, and the financing of the welfare state. #PensionesSostenibles #Economía #EstadoDelBienestar (translated)

The president of AECOC, Ignacio González, has requested the next Government to lower VAT and energy taxes, justifying his request with the high fiscal revenue of recent years and highlighting the need to protect consumers and promote investment in productivity. #GranConsumo #IVA #Gobierno (translated)

Ignacio González, president of AECOC, claims that improving salaries requires increasing productivity and reducing absenteeism, while calling for a temporary reduction in VAT and energy taxes to alleviate the cost of living in a context of economic crisis and international tensions. #Productividad #Inflación #Consumo (translated)

The article analyzes the growing problem of absenteeism in the workplace in Spain, especially in the services sector, and how this phenomenon, along with inflation, is impacting the economy, leading business owners to raise prices and question the measurement of productivity. #AbsentismoLaboral #Inflación #Economía (translated)

Gustavo Petro described the reduction of the workweek to five days in Brazil as a triumph of progressivism. He argued that the debate on reducing working hours and the time needed to retire should focus on who receives the benefits of increased productivity: companies or their workers. Petro stated that productivity was the result of knowledge accumulated by society and, therefore, a common good. He also questioned whether artificial intelligence should be privately owned and said that a minority group was appropriating human knowledge through information from networks and databases. In his view, increases in productivity should translate into shorter working hours and earlier retirements, so that people have more paid free time. #Progresismo #TrabajoJusto #InteligenciaArtificial (translated)

The IMF warns that the mediocre growth of the eurozone will persist in the medium term, with a GDP forecast of 1.1% for 2026 and an annual inflation rate of 3.1%, highlighting the need for structural reforms to improve productivity and competitiveness in the region. #FMI #CrecimientoEconómico #Inflación (translated)

Because we propose a cleaning of the political system and, in parallel, the modernization of the country. Democracy 21 debuts in a very polarized campaign. Why do they present themselves? Because we propose a cleaning of the political system and, in parallel, the modernization of the country. “We propose a global pact of 10 years so that, with legal certainty, social and protected housing can be built.” “We propose a global pact of 10 years so that, with legal certainty, social and protected housing can be built.” “There is a lack of growth due to productivity, and without it, it will not be possible to invest in infrastructure.” “There is a lack of growth due to productivity, and without it, it will not be possible to invest in infrastructure.” #Democracia21 #Reformas #ViviendaSocial (translated)

"In order for salaries to rise, it is important for productivity to grow as well. If not, there is no sustainable way to do it," warned the vice-secretary of Economy of the PP, Juan Bravo, who criticized that "Spain is growing by adding and not multiplying." #EconomíaEspañola #Salarios #ForoCREO (translated)

Zen said that by 8:40 he had organized the work of his small team on Slack, which published videos for AI brands almost daily. He mentioned that Viktor, an AI employee integrated into Slack, detected that a brand had moved its launch to 6:00 PM — the email arrived at 2:07 AM — and that the draft was ready; additionally, two of the seven postings for the week still had not been approved, one since Friday. He also pointed out that Monday's video exceeded its average by 2.4 times and had a 48-hour report prepared, while that day's video lasted 1:11 even though the request set a maximum of 50 seconds. Viktor asked him about the overlap between two posts scheduled for 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM. Zen said he moved the second to the next day at 12:00 PM and requested to send a reminder and trim the video; at 4:52 PM, the brand approved it, and the post was scheduled. Zen asked his readers whether they checked their email or calendar first in the morning, and promoted a free trial of Viktor with $100 in credits and no credit card required. The post was identified as paid collaboration. #IA #Productividad #Slack (translated)

The economic prosperity of Europe depends on investment in artificial intelligence and data centers, which are essential for increasing productivity and ensuring digital sovereignty, but the continent faces significant challenges in terms of computing capacity and business demand. #InteligenciaArtificial #CentrosDeDatos #SoberaníaDigital (translated)

All the big companies, including those in video games, have rushed to embrace AI for development. Under the premise of productivity improvements and the hidden reality of saving by laying off workers, they have championed the technology. Now that same technology is being used to (translated)

Estefania Molina wrote that she did not believe Pedro Sánchez had yet decided whether to call elections. Nevertheless, she maintained that he was an unparalleled politician in Spain for decades and the undisputed leader of the left. Molina recalled that in 2016 Sánchez obtained 85 seats, while Podemos was gaining strength and Pablo Iglesias was sparking enthusiasm among young people. According to her, the PSOE, with 150 years of history, was then facing the risk of disappearing. The author considered Sánchez's economic policies to be counterproductive and short-term, stating that growth was supported by the increase in the number of workers rather than by productivity. She also described his housing policies as populist and said they pointed the average owner as guilty without addressing the underlying problem. Despite these criticisms, Molina asserted that Sánchez was the best politician known to a generation of young people. She added that, in her view, he would call elections when he could ensure the PSOE a solid position in opposition, and maintained that the right could not aspire to have a leader like him. #PedroSánchez #PolíticaEspañola #Juventud (translated)

Gustavo Petro criticized the Minister of Agriculture for talking about stopping rice cultivation and called the proposal miserable for the Colombian people. He argued that rice was nutritious and that the country should move towards food self-sufficiency. He warned that a fall in the peso, a mega-drought, and rising food prices would increase hunger. He also stated that the Ibagué plateau had rice yields similar to those of the United States. Petro said he had proposed a "rice route" that would include cooperative mills owned by producers, cheap credit, cooperation with Chinese universities to improve techniques and productivity, tariff protection, and the expansion of rice-growing areas. He also suggested building the road between Ayapel, San Marcos, and Magangué, deepening agrarian reform in Magangué and southern Bolívar, and allowing water to flow in La Mojana. He asserted that Colombia should produce more cereals and replace extensive livestock farming on 15 million hectares of fertile land with food agriculture in the hands of peasant farmers and small and medium producers. He added that cashew production was important, but not as a substitute for rice-growing areas: he proposed cultivating it in low-productivity livestock areas, as a voluntary alternative to coca leaf crops and in the Colombian altillanura. Petro linked the minister's announcement about rice production to land burning in Tolima due to human action and to what he described as the idea of Abelardo and Restrepo of substituting production and intensive labor for hydrocarbon extraction and activities with less employment. https://t.co/zB0X6wz13i #Arroz #AutosuficienciaAlimentaria #ProducciónAgrícola (translated)