The American worker just can’t seem to get a break. Automation is wiping out whole job categories, from cashiers to machine-builders, while pressures from globalization, trade, and new Internet-driven business models have disrupted industries and displaced hundreds of thousands of workers. And the prescribed solution — education — is becoming increasingly unaffordable for most Americans.
Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy
New technologies and business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better.
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