The world’s workers seem to be in a bad spot: A recent study found that each new industrial robot displaces six employees. Automation is on the rise in fields from radiology to volleyball coaching . Workers in poorer manufacturing-reliant nations are especially vulnerable, it’s said, because their jobs could soon be done by robots. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the new book Homo Deus , speculates in a recent Bloomberg View column about the rise of a huge, embittered “useless class” living on the dole.
But if work is being automated out of existence, how do you explain a 2.8 […]
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