What Brad DeLong thinks about agency
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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Their wordsYet it is very suggestive indeed: 200,000 fewer in paid creative-arts employmnet today than at the post-plague peak. Share 300,000 fewer than the 2010-2019 level. 100,000 is a fall in employment in movie and TV production. But how much of that 100K is the streaming disruption, how much is “AI”, and how much is something else?
↗Arts Employment in America: CHART OF THE DAYbraddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsThose two factors make the creative-arts sector perhaps the heaviest of heaviest lifts as far as paid employment and technological change are concerned.
↗Arts Employment in America: CHART OF THE DAYbraddelong.substack.com
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