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Technology

AI Didn't Replace the Junior Analyst. It Changed What the Job Is

The fear was that the entry-level knowledge job would vanish. The reality is stranger: the tasks changed, the judgment got more valuable, and nobody updated the training.

Long Reads

Why Some Occupations Became Professions and Others Didn't

Skill alone never made a profession. Here's the social, political, and economic machinery that separated doctors from healers.

Business

Why the Standard Working Week Is a Political Decision

The 40-hour week wasn't handed down by economists. Here's how political pressure, not productivity data, set the clock most workers live by.

Culture

Why Prestige and Stigma Attach to the Same Jobs

A surgeon is revered in one country, a merchant celebrated in another. Here's the cultural machinery that decides which jobs earn respect.