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" Workers are basically supervisors of machines. "

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" The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment. "

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" Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much. "

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" There's never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to create and capture value. "

" Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. "

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