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The warning signs were there two decades ago—long before ChatGPT, long before anyone worried about a robot taking their job
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Around 2005, something quietly shifted in the American labor market.
Key facts
- He recently funded a startup in New York building $1,000 humanoid robots designed to be deployed by the millions—not the $100,000 prototypes that dominate headlines, but cheap enough to generate
- He told Chadha that his 300-person implementation team could be reduced to 30 or 40 with AI
- It was three, and then it was kind of five to 10, and then it was 20, and it kept going up.” The movement jumped to Apple retail locations, Trader Joe’s, Amazon warehouses, and REI
- The cofounder and managing partner of WestBridge Capital, a $7 billion India-focused evergreen fund, Chadha splits his time between Bangalore and the Bay Area
Summary
The warning signs were there two decades ago—long before ChatGPT, long before anyone worried about a robot taking their job. “This is a generation of people that was given the hardest sell of any generation in history of why they need to go to college,” says Noam Scheiber, a New York Times labor reporter whose new book, Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, chronicles the revolt brewing inside America’s credentialed workforce. Scheiber, who graduated in 1998 into what he calls “one of the best years in the history of the world to have graduated from college,” watched the shift unfold from the front row of the labor beat.
“That’s not something that we saw for 30 years before that,” Scheiber says.