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The Infinite Elasticity of Capitalism
Todd's 600-year rebuttal to the AI jobs panic.
How it works
- 1Every time technology, financial innovation, and low-cost energy braid together, job creation and GDP explode.
- 2Todd traces it back to roughly 1400: shipbuilders were the tech bros of the 1500s, the Medicis' double-entry bookkeeping was the fintech breakthrough.
- 3The jobs AI destroys are visible today; the jobs it creates don't have names yet.
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He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AIListen to the episodeMore from this episode
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