Episodes

  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #19: Making the Future

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #19: Making the Future
    May 10 2019
    Now that we have sorted out how we want the economy to work in the future, let's discuss what we can do to help bring about those changes.
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    30 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #18: Practical Advice for Everyone

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #18: Practical Advice for Everyone
    May 3 2019
    Now that we have thoroughly explored how the economy is going to be changing in the near future, let's discuss what you can do today to help yourself transition into this brave new world.
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    58 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #17: The Purpose of Life

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #17: The Purpose of Life
    Apr 26 2019
    If our life's purpose is not the work we do, then what is it?
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    10 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #16: Work and Happiness

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #16: Work and Happiness
    Apr 19 2019
    If acquiring more and more money won't make people happier, and they cannot compete with automation in the workplace, can we simply provide people with basic amenities to make them happy? It is a little more complicated than that.
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    17 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #15: Happiness

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #15: Happiness
    Apr 12 2019
    One of the reasons that pursuing the hedonic treadmill is that our brains are wired to create happiness for us, regardless of the events around us.
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    16 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #14: Income and Happiness

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #14: Income and Happiness
    Apr 5 2019
    There is a bit more nuance to the question of whether income can affect your happiness. It comes down to the difference between emotional well-being and life satisfaction.
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    10 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #13: Growth and Happiness

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #13: Growth and Happiness
    Mar 29 2019
    Does making more money make us happier? Turns out that once we have met a certain threshold of our needs, making more money does not increase happiness.
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    17 mins
  • Robots Will Steal Your Job #12: The Scorpion and the Frog

    Robots Will Steal Your Job #12: The Scorpion and the Frog
    Mar 22 2019
    A short parable to illustrate that sometimes things just are what they are.
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    6 mins