History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

David Autor

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I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

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I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.

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I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

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Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

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I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

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There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

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