“The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standa...” — David Autor Quote

The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.

The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods that other countries can do more cheaply.

There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.

There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Thanks to 'Eega,' people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.

As a nation brimming with ingenuity, courage and abundance, we will find the way to thrive. We just need to believe it ourselves.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.