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• The nature of work changes with increasing speed as economies mature.
• “[A] minority,” the article suggests, “is benefitting from an intensifying war for talent. That minority is well placed to demand interesting and fulfilling work and set its own terms and conditions.”1 This minority, of course, is very well educated and highly capable of adapting to changing circumstances.
• We now live in what is not so much a “knowledge” economy but rather a “figure it out on a daily basis” economy. Or, more formally, a learning economy.
• Sara Horowitz, the series’ author and founder of the nonprofit Freelancers Union, describes what she calls the “freelance economy,” in which “over 42 million Americans are working independently—as freelancers, part-timers, consultants, contractors, and the self-employed.” Horowitz goes on to argue: We haven’t seen a shift in the workforce this sign...
• There is and will continue to be a lack of sufficiently educated people entering the U.S. economy in the foreseeable future. And this is happening at a time when the job market, as already noted in this chapter, is shifting toward “high-talent” positions.