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Matthew Yglesias
Oct 29, 2026
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As A.I. companies race to rid the world of gainful employment, we now face the question of what it would even mean to be human if labor itself becomes obsolete. For their latest book club episode of the podcast, Matt and Jerusalem read Hannah Arendt’s “The Human Condition,” which considered this very question in 1958. Arendt, who spent years as a statel…
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