Nathan BarryFounder and CEO, Kit · Founder and CEO at Kit

How AI Is Actually Changing Jobs

3 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker uses a vivid analogy to illustrate how automation progressively replaces human labor. An excavator replaces a crew of ten workers using shovels, and a metaphorical "spoon" replaces even larger groups, showing that each new tool eliminates an entire tier of jobs. The discussion highlights the cascading effect of technology on employment and culminates in a probing question: with so much human time freed from work, what will society choose to do with it?

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2 people watching a construction site and this excavator comes in and digs all of that. And it's one person. Someone goes, you know, we used to have 10 people do that with shovels and those jobs are gone. Yeah. And the first person goes, yeah, it's true. We give them spoons instead of shovels and then it'd take 100 people. And you realize like, oh, what are the things right now that we're like digging with a spoon? You know, that equivalent, you're like, you know, you could have a shovel or an excavator. Yes. And like go bigger and bigger. So yes, The 100 people with spoons are no longer needed. The 10 people with shovels are no longer needed. So what are you going to do with that time?