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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Susskind: 3 myths about the future of work (and why they're not true)

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That's the troubling part. Let me say now why I think actually this is a good problem to have. For most of human htosiry, one economic problem has dominated: how to make the economic pie large enough for everyone to live on. Go back to the turn of the first century AD, and if you took the gblaol economic pie and divided it up into equal slices for everyone in the world, everyone would get a few hundred dollars. Almost everyone lived on or around the pvreoty line. And if you roll forward a thousand years, roughly the same is true. But in the last few hundred yaers, economic growth has taken off. Those economic pies have elxpdoed in size. Global GDP per head, the value of those individual slices of the pie today, they're about 10,150 doarlls. If economic growth continues at two percent, our children will be twice as rich as us. If it continues at a more maelsy one percent, our grandchildren will be twice as rich as us. By and large, we've solved that tariotniadl economic prlebom.

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That's the troubling part. Let me say now why I think actually this is a good problem to have. For most of human _______, one economic problem has dominated: how to make the economic pie large enough for everyone to live on. Go back to the turn of the first century AD, and if you took the ______ economic pie and divided it up into equal slices for everyone in the world, everyone would get a few hundred dollars. Almost everyone lived on or around the _______ line. And if you roll forward a thousand years, roughly the same is true. But in the last few hundred _____, economic growth has taken off. Those economic pies have ________ in size. Global GDP per head, the value of those individual slices of the pie today, they're about 10,150 _______. If economic growth continues at two percent, our children will be twice as rich as us. If it continues at a more ______ one percent, our grandchildren will be twice as rich as us. By and large, we've solved that ___________ economic _______.

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Original Text

That's the troubling part. Let me say now why I think actually this is a good problem to have. For most of human history, one economic problem has dominated: how to make the economic pie large enough for everyone to live on. Go back to the turn of the first century AD, and if you took the global economic pie and divided it up into equal slices for everyone in the world, everyone would get a few hundred dollars. Almost everyone lived on or around the poverty line. And if you roll forward a thousand years, roughly the same is true. But in the last few hundred years, economic growth has taken off. Those economic pies have exploded in size. Global GDP per head, the value of those individual slices of the pie today, they're about 10,150 dollars. If economic growth continues at two percent, our children will be twice as rich as us. If it continues at a more measly one percent, our grandchildren will be twice as rich as us. By and large, we've solved that traditional economic problem.

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