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Are we heading for a world without work?

Daniel Susskind asks whether rising automation could lead to a world without work, and examines what that could mean for society.

Speaking with a variety of experts and working Americans, Daniel Susskind considers how we might negotiate a world without work. He hears the story of Youngstown, Ohio, where the collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s led to severe job losses and created a perfect storm of societal problems that a fresh wave of rapid automation could replicate on a mass scale. If we’re to avoid such a future, we’re going to have to rethink our attitudes towards taxation, wealth distribution, and even the nature of work itself.

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27 minutes

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Sun 20 Jun 202110:32GMT

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  • Wed 16 Jun 202101:32GMT
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  • Sun 20 Jun 202110:32GMT

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