Maybe Humans Can Have Jobs & Exist with A.I.? Will We Just Perform Services for the Rich? Or Will Increased Productivity = More Work to Do? What if AI + Human Work Quality Is Bad?

The Best Paragraph I've Read:"For most of human history, calories were scarce. Our energy went into finding or growing food. Agriculture steadily made food more plentiful and goods became scarce. Then goods were scarce; hand-me-down clothes were common and tools were expensive. Innovations in technology and manufacturing made goods cheaper. Then, technical knowledge became scarce: Doctors, lawyers and software engineers are paid high salaries because of the rarity of what they know. The fear is that A.I. will make knowledge plentiful; that it will turn the fruits of learning into a commodity as surely as manufacturing turned clothing into a commodity and industrial agriculture made strawberries commonplace."But something is always scarce. People are looking at the economy as it exists and asking which tasks A.I. can do; they should be asking which jobs people won’t want A.I. doing, or which services A.I. will make us want more of."This paragraph comes from an essay by Ezra Klein of the New York Times. The essay's title: "Why the A.I. Jobs Apocalypse (Probably) Won't Happen."You can read the full essay here:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html Zac & Don discuss Klein's ideas on why labor markets shouldn't worry about future jobs in a world with AI.