Zolan Kano-Youngs
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first heard Jul 2026
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You're suggesting it could look like a very quick collapse of industries that are vital to certain communities, vital to people.
Yes.
Do both of these models, the internet revolution and the China shock, seem equally plausible here, Ben?
So I think there's a long-term question and there's a short-term question.
When people in Silicon Valley talk about, you know, this is going to end work as we know it, we're all going to be, I don't know, sitting on the beach while the robots do everything for us.
Maybe that's possible.
I don't know.
But that feels like science fiction.
Feels very sci-fi movie, right?
And when I talk to economists, they have a tendency to kind of roll their eyes about this.
That's never the way this has worked out in reality, right?
If you go all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, right, we had people talking about, like, aha, nobody's going to have to work anymore.
And, like, guess what?
We're all still working.
The concern that I hear from economists is much more about this nearer term, these incredible disruptions.
And so if this plays out gradually and if we have time for sort of new industries to be created, new jobs to be created, for us to figure it out and younger people to start to pivot, older people to wrap up their careers the way we did in the 90s period, right, then this transition no doubt will be painful for some individuals, right?
but could be pretty good for the economy as a whole.
If it happens in a way that looks more like that China shock example, where we see whole categories of jobs wiped out more or less overnight, where it's not clear what direction you should go in because all the other careers you can imagine are also getting wiped out,
That is the kind of disruption that could be really painful, not just for some individual workers, but for the economy as a whole, with all of the kind of social and political implications that we were just talking about.
You know, even with the uncertainty we established at the top of this, you have, by bringing us to the 90s, outlined that there are some lessons from significant disruptions in the economy that we can draw from.
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