Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: regardless of a century of creating makers to do our work for us, the percentage of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the previous 125 years. Why hasn't human labor become redundant and our abilities obsolete? In this talk about the future of work, financial expert David Autor addresses the concern of why there are still a lot of tasks and comes up with an unexpected, hopeful response.
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