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Ericson2314 on Aug 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI is different

The right way to think about "jobs" is that we could have given ourselves more leisure on the basis of previous technological progress than we actually did.

neom on Aug 16, 2025 [–]

Economics Explained recently did a good video about this idea: - Why do We Still Need to Work? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KXZP-Deel4

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