David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox
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The Challenge Is Always a Challenge for Our Imagination
At the turn of the 20th century, something like 38% of all U.S. employment was in agriculture. A hundred years later, 2% of all employment is in agriculture. We have gotten good at things that we thought were exclusively human, right? That we turned out how to automate them. So we're at a period where all of a sudden we see the frontier advancing very quickly but we don't know what is going to replace it.
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