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• the medical impact of the virus has been extremely unequal. In the UK, people from ethnic minority backgrounds made up 14 percent of the population but 34 percent of critically ill COVID-19 patients; in the US, Black people were almost five times more likely to be hospitalized due to the virus, and more than twice as likely to die from it, than whi...
• pandemic has also transformed the fundamental rhythms of how many of us live our lives: we eat out less, shop online more, avoid travel if we can, stay away from theaters and cinemas and sporting events, work from home if possible, and so on. Even when the pandemic fades away and government restrictions are relaxed, these changes in habits and beha...
• eventually do to human beings as well: drive us out of work. What cars and tractors were to them, he thought, computers and robots would be to us.13
• The future of work raises exciting and troubling questions that often have little to do with economics: questions about the nature of intelligence, about inequality and why it matters, about the political power of large technology companies, about what it means to live a meaningful life, about how we might live together in a world that looks very d...
• not a world without any work at all, as some predict, but a world without enough work for everyone to do.