David Frum: We have had like 200 years of technological change, and every time that you have very disruptive technological change, obviously lots of people lose. So what I want to say is that actually simply focusing on the job losses without seeing potential future jobs, I think, is wrong. He says we're never able to rival the skills and the intelligence of humans in the lower range of the skill distribution.
Yascha Mounk and Branko Milanovic discuss what his famous elephant curve says about the ills—and the gains—of globalization; how the left’s concern with inequality is being turned against its concern with internationalism; why economic causes of populism are often expressed in cultural ways; and how a determination to increase the financial and educational endowments of ordinary citizens can combat inequality and boost their living standards.
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