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Is Generative AI creating more Jobs?

The displacement force is different this time, impacting cognitive and white-collar work rather than factory floors. But every other element of the structure is remarkably familiar: a powerful disruption, immediate job losses in exposed sectors, and a wave of offsetting gains that keep headline unemployment low.

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New: A free year of Cursor, Google AI Pro, Notion, Supabase, Gumloop, and Fin for subscribers

Because things are changing so fast, there's a growing divide—in terms of career opportunities, financial outcomes, and how much you enjoy your work—between the people who benefit from the transformation we're living through and those who get left behind.

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How Japan has changed in the last 20 years

The quirky art culture, vibrant street scenes, and mosaic of small independent businesses that defined 2000s Japan are vanishing under the relentless assault of aging, economic stagnation, and social media.

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6 Takeaways From Citrini's Viral AI Doomer Article (and a Bunch of Rebuttals)

Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting.

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The U.S. Labor Market and its AI problem

The deeper problem appears to be that the tech is not a meaningful job creator or increasing productivity outside of a few roles even in technology companies.