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Comment by Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor
For most of the last 40 years, the jobs and wages of blue-collar Americans were eroded by globalization and computer software, and most of the benefits from productivity gains went to the richest 10 percent. AI is now putting the jobs of millions of white-collar Americans on the line. If nothing is done, we’re likely to see white-collar jobs suffer the same erosion — with most of the benefits from the productivity gains going to the richest 0.1 percent. [...] (Think a Universal Basic Income, for example, or wealth taxes financing child care, elder care, and universal health care.)AI Verified source (Feb 11, 2026)
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The provided URL resolves to Robert Reich’s Substack post titled AI and the Coming Jobless Economy, authored by Robert Reich and dated 2026-02-11. An independent republication reproduces the quoted passage verbatim, including the two sentences before the omission and the closing parenthetical after it, and web snippets linking back to the same Substack post repeat that ending line, so the stored author, date, source URL, and quoted content are consistent. ([robertreich.substack.com](https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-bogus-4-day-workweek-that-ai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
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Reich did publish "AI and the Coming Jobless Economy" on Substack on February 11, 2026, and a full reprint on Eurasia Review contains the relevant passage. However, the submitted quote is not verbatim: after "If nothing is done," the article adds that white-collar jobs would "suffer the same erosion" before saying the gains would go to the richest 0.1 percent. The later clause about "a Universal Basic Income" and wealth taxes does appear, but this version shortens the middle sentence without marking that omission there, so it is materially altered. ([robertreich.substack.com](https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-bogus-4-day-workweek-that-ai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Verified. The robertreich.substack.com source returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote from that exact essay ("AI and the Coming Jobless Economy" / "The bogus 4-day workweek," February 2026). Confirmed passages: AI is "putting the jobs of millions of white-collar Americans on the line," "if nothing is done, most of the benefits from productivity gains will go to the richest 0.1 percent," and his proposed remedies include "a Universal Basic Income... or wealth taxes financing child care, elder care, and universal health care." Author attribution correct (Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor). Year 2026 current. Vote "for" aligns with the statement "Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy" — Reich explicitly advocates wealth taxes (taxing capital/owners) to redistribute AI-driven productivity gains away from the richest 0.1%. Corroborated by Raw Story, Eurasia Review, and Futurism coverage.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 1mo ago
replying to Robert Reich