Allison Schrager

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Morning Wire · Trump Stares Down Iran & Mamdani’s Plan To Squash Landlords | 5.28.26 · 28 May 2026 podcast

It took more than 100 years for the steam engine to show up in productivity numbers.

One thing we are learning about AI and workforce, they're finding that a lot of the sort of more average, mediocre employees benefit a lot from it and makes them more excellent.

But an excellent employee who's probably already driving productivity numbers doesn't get the same boost.

There's also some evidence that you become more productive from AI and then spend those saved hours like goofing off at work.

Well, I mean, there is a bit of a learning curve.

A tech firm tends to be more hungry to adopt new technology.

I mean, that's their ethos.

There's an irony here that Uber became so popular by initially launching their product and not charging people the cost of it.

So people got used to using it.

And initially, AI also did seem free.

So I think they're also just sort of learning the ups and downs of that business model.

What's probably going to happen is that you have a recession and you're sort of tightening your belt.

And that's a good time to say, hey, maybe AI can replace that role.

So it will look like a recession-oriented job loss, but AI might exacerbate it.

I think a lot of these AI doomsayers about jobs tend to be tech people who maybe don't have a lot of work experience outside of tech.

They're engineers.

And so they look at a job and they look at the output that they can observe that maybe took 30% of your time.

And they think AI could do that.

So they kind of dismiss the 70%, all these sort of intangibles that actually make up a big part of your workday when you've actually had a job.

In the past, when you had technology that made people more productive, it didn't reduce jobs.

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