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There’s No Such Thing as a Stable Career

THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATION and artificial intelligence is dramatically changing industries—and jobs—around the world.

But look back at the last century-plus of economic history, and it quickly becomes clear that such rapid technological change and disruption has long been the rule, not the exception. Categories of jobs once viewed as integral to Western economies have shrunk or essentially disappeared, only to be replaced by new ones.

Though these changes often take place on an international scale, the

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