Economist Justin Wolfers: AI Coming For White-Collar Jobs. (opens in new tab)

The U of Michigan prof (you may know him from his Platypus Economics Substack, or being the funny economist on TV) talked to Schecter and Shuster for an hour that made economics, AI, inflation, and the future of work genuinely fun. Wolfers untangled why the stock market soars while your paycheck buys less, what an AI economy does to people like you, and whether your kids are going to be okay. He also went through how —for 0.026% of his fortune, the equivalent of you finding $50 in couch cushi...