Pete Buttigieg
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first heard Aug 2026
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And that's true for blue collar workers.
That's even more true for white collar workers.
And so I think that there is a generation of workers who are about to have their identity, not just their job, their identity disrupted.
Whether we can come up with new sources or better sources of belonging than what your job is could decide everything about what it feels like and is like to live in this country within the next few years.
There's always going to be something worth doing with our time.
We need to arrange an economy that rewards things that are worth doing with our time, especially things that only people can do.
Some of that is creative work.
Some of that is very human work like caregiving.
I'm thinking about this more and more because I belong to this sandwich generation that's taking care of kids and aging parents at the same time.
But whether those kinds of things are rewarded or not is what I worry about.
I mean, imagine a world where, just for the sake of imagination, you've got a machine that can make more and more things.
It's like the replicator from Star Trek.
You know, I love Star Trek.
As a kid, Captain Picard goes up to him and he just says, like, give me a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot.
And like, it happens, right?
Imagine some combination of artificial intelligence and robotics that leads to factories where you can kind of do that.
Over time, you need fewer and fewer people in them.
And that means that less and less in the economy depends on the wages that those workers can command because you need fewer of them.
That means more and more is going to depend on who actually owns the machine.
By which I mean both the intellectual property, the AI, and the physical plant, right?
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