Jacob Ward
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752 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Jacob Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Changed it soon, didn't he?
Word processing applications didn't do away with office work, but they changed it forever.
Employers and employees had to adapt, and they did.
And the demand for people who help others, teaching, caring for patients, and supporting the elderly, for example, will never go away.
Now, he writes, quote, there will be some new jobs, but without the right policies, there will be far fewer than exist today.
Many jobs will disappear forever.
And he talks about putting things like teaching, caring for patients, and elder care into a category called human-reserved, where you are.
intentionally by regulation protecting a certain set of jobs that you could automate but shouldn't.
Kudos.
You shouldn't have robots taking care of me in ten years at the at the end of the year.
I mean that's his argument.
He's got a dad in Alzheimer's who he he he refers to in this in this essay.
And I think that there's something like
There's uh you know, I just have to assume that he's been in some meetings that you that we don't get to be in.
Right.
Uh you know, w that that have him
thinking about this and and to that point of like, yeah, some new jobs will be created.
I think, you know, when any good ec you know, economist sits down with these n numbers and and probably then discusses them with a guy like Bill Gates, like they point out things like non college educated women are gonna be decimated.
by this, you know, 'cause admin, bookkeeping, clerical used to be the great retirable jobs, like full on career job you could have as a non college educated woman and that's all disappearing.
Never mind like, you know, customer service in India.
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