I recently spoke at the World Strategy Forum event in Seoul, where the theme was “The new rules: reframing capitalism”. Predictably, the discussion focused on global financial infrastructure. But, as one of the few non-economist speakers, I instead argued that employment/unemployment is even more affected by the changing nature of work – and the wildly accelerating effectiveness of technology, which is encroaching on activities that employ tens of millions of people, especially in the developed world.
最近,我在南韓首爾舉行的、主題爲「新規則:重塑資本主義」的世界戰略論壇(World Strategy Forum)上發表了講話。全球金融基礎設施自然是此次討論的焦點所在,但作爲現場少數非經濟學出身的發言人之一,我話鋒一轉,指出由於工作性質的變化,以及技術帶來的生產效率的迅猛提高,就業/失業問題受到的影響更爲嚴重。技術侵入了涉及千萬人就業的生產活動,尤其是在發達國家。