DeepMind paper: most workers need 100-120% salary replacement to quit their jobs
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-11-14
A new paper by Google DeepMind's Julian Jacobs, "What is Work For? Labor, Politics, and Meaning in the Age of AI," surveys workers across countries: most derive substantial non-monetary value from work across the whole income distribution, with large country differences — Indian respondents need far more guaranteed income to leave jobs. The labor-supply exit curve shows 65-79% would quit at 100% salary replacement, rising above 80% in the US/UK at 110-120%. A caution against US/UK/China-only analyses of AI's social impact.
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