I used to work with a consultant who was a bit of a maverick and would regularly get dismissed from his clients after he ignored all the top brass and immediately went to talk to the people on the floor to find out what was really going on. Nearly every time his radical solutions and reports, which made sense, would just get filed in a drawer because they got rid of middle management. He didn't care if they implemented his ideas. He'd just move on to the next.

They want to detect overcrowding of stations which means before people have gone through any barriers

They've been collecting data for at least 3 years. It's only the detecting of attempted wifi connections but it's the best data source fro predicting overcrowding of stations. A lot of what they tried out to manage crowding during the Olympics is being refined and used to manage passenger flows so some passengers are sent on different routes.

You can only be anonymous by blending into a large anonymity set. If the very act of using the privacy features singles you out as being part of a small set that is trying to be covert then it makes things worse.

Half expected he answer to be 'owns 20 other houses'

A better approach might be to just stop them acquiring the things that ordinary folks need in a bid becoming rentier parasites, namely homes.

In a world where food is abundant (for now) that's what keeps everyone else poor. Limit their ability to become greedy landlords and they'll be forced to invest in real businesses and take risks.

This can be started on a local level and enforced easily by only allowing people who live in the homes or community trusts or government to own them.

If some billionaire owns 10 ferraris, has millions in offshore accounts and a super yacht why should anyone else care? It's not taking away from anyone and creates demand for luxuries that wouldn't otherwise exist and create jobs.

Sweet irony would be if you could use their own AI research to help

Bring back 'long life' insurance, the one where the money of those 'lucky' enough to not run out of money before they die goes to the survivors who need it.

It became taboo and phased out or banned because of obvious conflicts of interest and incentives but if managed well to not enable those incentives it could make a come back.

I was expecting something negative too but that just shows how negative people's assumptions/biases are regarding these things.

For someone working with UK/West European clients the time zone means you can enjoy the daytime and work in the evening which I prefer. The 9-5 is too engrained from last century workhouses to change but doesn't suit a balanced lifestyle