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The AI job apocalypse is 'unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history,' a16z says | Fortune

AI job apocalypse predictions are framed as a “lump-of-labor” fallacy, with human demand expanding as costs fall and new work categories emerging.

Artificial intelligence

fromFortune

1 week ago

BofA throws cold water on AI apocalypse panic: 60% of today's jobs didn't exist in 1940 | Fortune

AI will augment rather than replace most jobs, with historical data showing economies adapt and create new roles during technological disruptions.

fromBig Think

8 months ago

Money as the dark matter of the universe

What if, like food or life itself, money carried an expiration date - forcing it to flow rather than accumulate? Could changing the very nature of money reshape our values and bind communities together - instead of often driving them apart?

Philosophy

fromtime.com

11 months ago

Adam Smith, The Inventor of Capitalism Lived With His Mother. Here's Why That Matters

"The necessity and value of domestic labor was absent from [Adam Smith's] reflections on men acting in their own self-interest. The real invisible hands in Smith's accounting of the market remain conspicuously excluded."

Women

Cryptocurrency

fromHackernoon

2 years ago

Austrian Economics and Cryptocurrencies: Against Fiat and Centralization | HackerNoon

Austrian Economics advocates for naturally occurring currency through trade, paralleling trends in cryptocurrency, while cautioning against government-imposed fiat money.