Best-case tech adjustment: incumbents keep jobs, youth enter new roles
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-25
The post discusses the "best-case" adjustment to new technologies: skilled incumbent workers do not lose their jobs, but young workers do not enter the profession, moving instead to newly created jobs. This is similar to the case of US telephone operators in the 1950s.
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