Why are there still so many jobs?

Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years. Why hasn't human labor become redundant and our skills obsolete? In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there are there still so many jobs and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer. Interactive transcriptInteractive transcript David Autor Economist David Autor's work assesses the labor market consequences of technological change and globalization. Full bio Similar topics TEDx Agriculture Behavioral economics Business Collaboration Economics Education Farming History Humanity Innovation Manufacturing Population Productivity Social change Society Technology Work This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxCambridge, an independent event. TED editors featured it among our selections on the home page. Enthusiastically agree? Respectfully beg to differ? Have your say here.