Rage Against the Machine: The Future of Work is already here, and it isn’t robots we should be stressed out about

Podcast
March 22, 2022

In this episode, we tell the story of Joe Liebman, a one-time newspaper distribution executive who lost his job as technology transformed the industry and now works in a warehouse in St. Louis. MIT economist David Autor shares his research finding that, as automation and technology continue to rapidly change work, it’s not the robots we should be worrying about. 

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