Yeah I didn’t want to get into the weeds about inherently unsafe stuff, since the OP was about an XML parser

I guess I don't write enough rust to say this with confidence, but isn't that the bare minimum? I find it difficult to believe the rust community would accept using a library where the API requires unsafe.

I don't think it makes a lot of sense to put those responsibilities on individual firms. In the USA, achieving maximum employment has been a mandate for the Federal Reserve to achieve through monetary policy. There are many advantages to allowing individual firms to optimize for productivity. There are also a lot of harms caused by forcing firms to adopt unproductive methods. Even Keynes' joking solution for unemployment was that the treasury might bury bottles of money for private industry to dig up.

> Salaries, benefits etc have all not been keeping up with inflation for decades

I don't believe that's consistent with the data

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

I read an article in FT just a couple days ago claiming that increased productivity was becoming visible in economic data

> My own updated analysis suggests a US productivity increase of roughly 2.7 per cent for 2025. This is a near doubling from the sluggish 1.4 per cent annual average that characterised the past decade.

good for 3 clicks: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/97861f...