Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market
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Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market
There are plenty of service jobs that are meant to cancel out the efforts of other service jobs. One firm spends a few million dollars to hire a dozen ad agencies to convince you to purchase its car insurance policies; another firm hires a different dozen agencies and puts out other ads. One firm or person decides to sue another, creating the need ... See more
danwang.co • Definite optimism as human capital
Those advocating the retraining of workers tend to believe that AI will slowly shift what skills are in demand, but if workers can adapt their abilities and training, then there will be no decrease in the need for labor. Those advocates of reducing work hours believe that AI will reduce the demand for human labor and feel that this impact could be
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What on earth is going on with work right now.
Why is everybody hiring but no one's getting hired? Why are we measuring our worth in rejection emails? How do you find momentum to grow while juggling two or more jobs? When did capitalism decide that a skeleton team of desperate people, misled into believing they have no other option, was the only via
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