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Derek Thompson suggests we may finally have reached the long-predicted tipping point where machines are capable of doing most of our work, effectively making work obsolete. 

, Thompson suggests the end of work may actually be a good thing.

Thompson visited Youngstown, Ohio, a city made prosperous by steel mills in the 20th century:

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Derek Thompson suggests we may finally have reached the long-predicted tipping point where machines are capable of doing most of our work, effectively making work obsolete.

Derek Thompson suggests we may finally have reached the long-predicted tipping point where machines are capable of doing most of our work, effectively making work obsolete. In his new Atlantic piece, Thompson suggests the end of work could actually be a good thing.

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