
Are Jobs Cooked? - Inside the 40% White-Collar Wipeout
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Episode · 13:46 · May 12, 2026
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16,000 American jobs. Erased by AI. Every single month for the past year. 192,000 jobs in 12 months. Not a forecast. A payroll measurement (Goldman Sachs, April 2026).Episode 2 of Are We Cooked? zooms into the work question. With numbers. With named experts. With the 2026 plot twist nobody saw coming, including Klarna's reversal: replaced 700 jobs with AI in 2024, then quietly hired humans back in 2025-2026 because AI failed on quality.Anurag Sharma walks through:- The Goldman April 2026 hook stat that breaks the labor market- Stanford AI Index 2026: entry-level software dev jobs down 20% since 2024- The optimist case: jobs evolve, they don't end (Brynjolfsson, Madgavkar, Autor, Hoffman)- The pessimist case: the career ladder is breaking (Acemoglu, Korinek, Susskind, Klotz)- What both sides miss, including the Klarna reversal and the India-specific question nobody is asking- The split Anurag is watching on his own team: who's adapting, who's quietly drowning- Three sharper questions for anyone trying to figure out their next 3 yearsNot a hype show. Not a doom show. A thinking show. We don't hand you the answer. We hand you a sharper version of the question.Are jobs cooked? You decide.CHAPTERS: [00:00] The 40% No One Is Talking About[00:30] Meet Your Host[01:38] Why Jobs, Why Right Now[02:34] The Optimist Case[07:55] The Pessimist Case[09:40] What Both Sides Miss[12:07] Are We? You Decide.
13m 46s · May 12, 2026
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