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I Lost My Job
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I Lost My Job

38 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Automation is quietly eliminating jobs that once seemed permanent, and this short film asks what happens to the people and economies left behind. Economists, technologists, and sociologists lay out how machines have moved from repetitive factory work into tasks once thought safely human, while people who have actually lost jobs to automation describe what that displacement did to their finances and daily routines. The film leans on outside research to frame the debate, citing the New Economics Foundation's proposal for a 21-hour work week and Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's book "Race Against the Machine" on how digital technology is reshaping productivity and employment. Jacque Fresco's ideas from "The Best That Money Can't Buy" get raised as a more radical alternative, questioning whether current economic models can survive widespread automation at all. Rather than settling the argument, the film lays retraining programs and universal basic income alongside these harder critiques and leaves the choice of direction open.