671 - The End of Jobs with Jeff Wald
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“We may end up with a future in which a fraction of the workforce will do a portfolio of things to generate an income—you could be an Uber driver, an Instacart shopper, an Airbnb host and a TaskRabbit.”
For most of the 2020s, the driving economic force will be low growth in productivity, decreased opportunities for investment of accumulated capital, and low interest rates. It will also be a period of increasing unemployment, driven by continued decline in industry and stagnation in high tech as the result of the maturation of the core technology.
... See moreAs a society, we’re paying people more money to do things which create less wealth. Yet we’re at a point where we can create more wealth and make more money for ourselves and others by pursuing work which forces us to grow in a way we personally find meaningful.