{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69583a71c4b2cc952cc3bf93/69583a7cc4b2cc952cc3c243?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Future of Wellbeing in an Automated World","description":"<p>This season of Better Life Lab, we’ve been taking a close look at work stress and the future of work and wellbeing. </p><p>Parts of the American economy are looking tough for many workers — even “dystopian. People are quitting their jobs at record rates.</p><p>We know what many of the problems are. Yet the fixes are not so simple. So on this closing episode of our fourth season, we ask: Are bad jobs an inherent part of the workplace — or can we actually do what it takes to make the jobs of the future good jobs, big enough to support real human life for all of us?</p><p><strong>Guests</strong></p><ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Rep. Jim Himes</strong>, D-Ct, chair of the <a href=\"https://fairgrowth.house.gov/\">House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth</a>\n</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Zeynep Ton</strong>, founder, <a href=\"https://goodjobsinstitute.org/\">Good Jobs Institute</a>\n</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://twosigmaimpact.com/our-team/\"><strong>Warren Valdmanis</strong></a>, private equity investor and partner with Two Sigma Impact, who will only invest in companies that provide good jobs</li>\n<li><br></li>\n</ul><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://www.metgroup.com/ideas/what-if-progress-meant-well-being-for-all/\">What if Progress meant Wellbeing for All?</a>, The Metropolitan Group</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/04/06/making-well-being-a-policy-priority-lessons-from-the-2021-world-happiness-report/\">Making wellbeing a policy priority. Lessons from the 2021 World Happiness Report</a>, Carol Graham, Brookings, 2021</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans\">The Business Roundtable Redefines the Purpose of a Corporation to Promote an Economy that Serves All</a>, 2019</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://fairgrowth.house.gov/news/press-releases/hearing-recap-our-changing-economy-effects-technological-innovation-automation\">Hearing Recap: Our Changing Economy: The Effects of Technological Innovation, Automation and the Future of Work</a>, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, Nov. 2021</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/technology/income-inequality-technology.html\">Economists pin more blame on tech for inequality</a>, New York Times, January 2022</li>\n</ul>","author_name":"New America"}