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Technology Creates Unimaginable New Occupations

As technology advances and machines absorb routine work, it creates entirely new occupations that previous generations could not have imagined—computer game developers, cybersecurity workers—and lowers transaction costs enough to enable new peer-to-peer markets like Airbnb and furniture-assembly services that were previously infeasible.

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Speaker

Joel Mokyr

Evidence Quote

this could not have happened

Source

Joel Mokyr on Growth, Innovation, and StagnationEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:12:21 AM

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