Jobs doomers keep making what's called the lump of labor fallacy. They think there is a fixed amount of labor to be done in the economy at any given time, and if machines do it, there will be no work for people to do. When technology is applied to production, we get productivity growth,. We also get higher wages. The result is a larger economy with higher material prosperity., more industries, more products and more jobs.
That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World."
On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones himself with https://play.ht/ to "read" the entire piece.
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