Erik Brynjolfsson

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201 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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It's not my first choice, but I think we need sort of an all-of-the-above solution.

So I'd like to see us thinking more about ways that we implement those kinds of ways of sharing the gains.

My concerns with just a payout and a sovereign wealth fund—

Is it like who decides who gets the money and who doesn't?

And if you don't agree with it, what leverage do you have?

If you don't pay a farmer, they're not going to give you the food or you don't pay a factory worker.

They're not going to give you the effort that they put into it.

But if you're just getting a dole, you don't really have any leverage to step back.

I mean, you hope you can work through your representatives, but –

I think it's a less stable equilibrium to just have people getting a check that way.

That said, as I said at the beginning, we should, you know, explore a variety of approaches.

So I agree.

Yeah, wage insurance is another thing.

Economists have been talking about this for decades, that there's more potential.

It's kind of a missing market there, just like you have housing insurance and fire insurance and health insurance.

It's tricky because of moral hazard, as you call it, that like, okay, you still want to have incentives for people to work.

But we could have better tools to understand which jobs are being affected and how much of that is due to exogenous forces and how many aren't.

I'm all for exploring that a little bit further.

Again, I don't think it's going to

solve the problem, but it could be one piece of the puzzle.

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