White-collar jobs (management, business, legal, art/media, admin) will be 80-85% automatable by AI imminently

White-collar jobs (management, business, legal, art/media, admin) will be 80-85% automatable by AI imminently | if you look really closely, you can barely read the small font there, but all this white collar activity is 80 85%... we're going to watch this chart uh and we're going to see this blue virus infect all of human existence

Watch events: BLS employment reports; tech layoff trackers; Underemployment rate; Yang quarterly updates

if you look really closely, you can barely read the small font there, but all this white collar activity is 80 85%... we're going to watch this chart uh and we're going to see this blue virus infect all of human existence

Dave 80-85% white collar automatable. Matches Yang's upper-bound.

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  "context": "all this white collar activity is 80 85%. I'll just read off the top here at the very top is management. And if I go clockwise, it says business and finance, computer and math, architecture and engineering... we're going to watch this chart uh and we're going to see this blue virus infect all of human existence.",
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