Low paid service jobs that often cater to higher-income customers are on the rise, everything from manicurists to Uber drivers. MIT economist David Autor calls it “wealth work.”
Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), a senior editor at The Atlantic, about what’s happening.
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