Important early warning signs for social unrest:

“Something different is going on in our current technological revolution. In a new study, David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Anna Salomons of Utrecht University found that over the last 40 years, jobs have fallen in every single industry that introduced technologies to enhance productivity.

“The only reason employment didn’t fall across the entire economy is that other industries, with less productivity growth, picked up the slack. ‘The challenge is not the quantity of jobs,’ they wrote. ‘The challenge is the quality of jobs available to low- and medium-skill workers.'” by Eduardo Porter

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