Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World · chapter 1 · id deep-work-c1-04-three-groups-will-thrive-in-th

“Three groups will thrive in the new economy: (1) high-skilled workers who can work with intelligent machines, (2) 'superstars' in their field, (3) owners of capital.”

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Brynjolfsson & McAfee -- Race Against the Machine (2011, MIT)source alive

Today's information technologies favor more-skilled over less-skilled workers, increase returns to capital owners over labor, and increase advantages that superstars have over everybody else.

Autor, Levy, Murnane -- Tasks, Automation, and Wage Inequality (MIT)source alive

Between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over four decades are accounted for by relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation.

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The SBTC explanation has failed to explain wage trends in the 1990s and 2000s, particularly the stability of the 50/10 wage gap and deceleration of the college wage premium.

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