NBER Study Finds AI Hasn't Taken Recent Grads' Jobs, Defying Predictions
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-29
A new NBER working paper by Jane Wu and Robert Fairlie finds that the widely predicted AI-driven job losses for recent college graduates never materialized this summer.
Beff Jezos adds that cracked juniors are now insanely more valuable, as are adaptable seniors who can pick up new tooling — calling the whole job-loss narrative a psyop.
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