labor economics i - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind

i wasn’t planning to write this post because i believe most economics research is quite partisan and therefore difficult to fully trust, and also to avoid potential inflammatory comments, but after seeing too many awful takes on labor over the last few months i decided it would be useful to share my thoughts somewhere. this post focuses on the historical effect of technology on labor, the elon/vivek vs maga h1b disputes at the end of 2024, and implications for agi. i try to avoid explaining things in too much detail and instead link to references that you can read if interested this is quite different from my typical post so if you’re not interested in labor economics you can stop reading. that being said i strongly believe this is a subject you should care about as it’s otherwise not really possible to understand the problems of people outside academic + tech bubbles / fears around “X is taking our jobs” / what the policy tradeoffs are (and also just because it’s interesting to unders

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