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Ross Clennett's avatar

This is a wonderful post, thank you. As a person who has been writing about changes in the labour market I greatly appreciate you shining a light on the human labour and skills that have been lost. A similarly wonderful read (in long form) is David Hepworth's wonderful history of the world's most famous recording studio Abbey Road. Highly recommended.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

I like the fact you used the phrase "economic evolution", and not 'economic growth'. The word growth has been gutted, and in relation to economics should be called 'parasitic growth' (where that which is growing (cancerously) eventually kills its host - regarding economics due to Nixon's 1971 decoupleng money from the Gold Standard).

True economic growth is sustainable evolution, and the mantra should be "adapt and die" (rather than adapt or die) as the article suggests with the many examples of dead industries and skills, and then some revival or rediscovery of the value lost.

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