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The Great Replacement of Labor: Humans, Machines, and the New Social Contract | Toronto Talks Ep 015
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What happens when the world still needs packages delivered and code reviewed — but needs far fewer people to do it?
In Episode 15 of Toronto Talks, Ash and Sophie break down “The Great Replacement of Labor” — an unfiltered look at how AI and automation are quietly restructuring work, wages, and identity.
This isn’t the familiar “robots take jobs” story. It’s a deeper conversation about coordination, dignity, and what’s left when algorithms become the managers.
- UPS depot closures and Amazon’s restructuring — what’s real vs. narrative
- Why automation targets tasks, not job titles
- The collapse of the middle layer: supervisors, coordinators, analysts
- Emotional labor vs. intellectual labor — and why both are being rewritten
- Why soft skills (creativity, adaptability, collaboration) are the new economic infrastructure
- Portfolio careers, nonlinear ladders, and the end of the “stable trajectory”
- The new social contract: loyalty, security, retraining, mobility
- How society can — and must — modernize around intelligence abundance
Ash and Sophie walk straight into the uncomfortable truth:Efficiency isn’t free. Someone pays for it. Someone benefits from it. And the gap is widening.
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Chapters
1. The Great Replacement of Labor: Humans, Machines, and the New Social Contract | Toronto Talks Ep 015 (00:00:00)
2. Welcome to Toronto Talks (00:00:07)
3. The Cost of Automation (00:00:48)
4. Fragmentation of Work (00:07:21)
5. Fluid Dynamics of Jobs (00:09:09)
6. Redefining Meaning in Work (00:16:19)
7. Efficiency and Reciprocity (00:20:30)
8. Building New Playbooks (00:28:03)
9. Resilience as a System (00:31:06)
10. Judgment as Job Security (00:32:45)
11. Designing Universal Adaptability (00:39:33)
12. The Future of the Social Contract (00:43:44)
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