Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market - by kyla scanlon

This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Last week, I joined Jon Stewart on the Daily Show (!!) to talk about how we might think differently about the economy. This week, I spoke at the Aspen Institute about what it actually feels like for young people trying to live in said economy. Both events were extraordinarily interesting and brought up two main questions: What is happening to the labor market right now? What do we do about it? The path of predictable progress is largely gone - the ROI on a college education is unclear, buying a house (if you don’t have vast family wealth1) feels incredibly out of reach, the rate of getting married and having kids has fallen - combine all that with the push and pull of the transformational power of AI and it makes it all that much more uncertain. And of course, that framework is nothing new to anyone at this point. But in this piece, I want to examine the labor market a

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