Along This Trail
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Will AI Really Take Everyone’s Job? Lessons from The Prediction Machine
A few days ago, YouTube recommended a book-review video by a Chinese content creator discussing The Prediction Machine (published in Chinese as AI Minimalist Economics), a book originally written in English by three economists from the University of Toronto. The video offered one of the clearest economic explanations of AI that I have encountered, particularly…
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Romanticized Oyaji Gyagu (Dad Jokes)
In Japanese, there is a term called oyaji gyagu (おやじギャグ), literally “dad jokes”—the kind of puns that are so corny they make everyone around you groan. They are often built on wordplay, loose associations, or accidental similarities in sound. Last night, while scrolling through YouTube Shorts before bed, I came across a clip of a…
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Is AI Really Taking Away People’s Jobs?
Every industrial revolution brings a period of social and economic transformation. Some professions gradually fade, while new ones emerge in their place. During the Industrial Revolution, many forms of manual labor were transformed by machinery. In the automotive and electronic age, occupations related to horse transportation — such as carriage drivers and stable workers —…