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When demand for a skill is highly elastic, the ability to deploy many workers in parallel can matter more than salary.
Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“doesn't even matter like the salary is totally secondary the fact that i can like this is the skill i need or the set of skills i need and i can have a worker and just like i can have a thousand workers and parallel there's something that has a high elasticity um of demand i think is like”Play from 2:50:55Report a misattribution
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