Future May Have More Wealth but Fewer Jobs Due to Confusing Employment with Production
VraserX · x · 2026-08-17
The future may contain far more wealth and far fewer traditional jobs. This seems impossible only because we have spent centuries treating employment and production as the same thing.
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