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How AI could help rebuild the middle class

Planet Money

CHAPTER

The Dark and Mysterious Economy of Influencers

Laelyn Wong: David Otter has been looking at the effect of technology on the labor market. He finds that computers made elite workers better at their jobs and much richer. But they also made a bunch of good middle class jobs disappear, he says. What will it take to reinstate the middle class with AI? And how do we get there? After the break, hear how our indicator series on the dark economy of influencers came together.

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