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Average is Over
The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom. The global labor market is changing...
Automation, Business & Economics, Economics, Robotics Tyler Cowen
Don’t Be Evil
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1%...
Digital Transformation, Economics, Inequality, Privacy, Public Policy, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media Rana Foroohar
Futureproof
You are being automated. After decades of hype and sci-fi fantasies, artificial intelligence is leaping out of research labs and into the center of our lives. Automation doesn’t just threaten...
Automation, Economics, Robotics, Technology & Engineering Kevin Roose
Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and...
Economics, Future of Work, Inequality Annie Lowrey
Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our wages. Most of us rank so far below the top earners in the country that the "winners" might...
Economics, Employment, Future of Work, Unemployment Ellen Ruppel Shell
The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates...
Economics, Future of Work, Inequality, Political Science Oren Cass
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way...
Democracy, Economics, Philanthropy Anand Giridharadas
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