# Narratives About Job Loss Lag Behind Abundance by Salim Ismail > "The first article we could find predicting that robots or AI would take all the jobs within five years appeared in 1964. We become trapped in these tropes and cannot get out of them. People made similar claims when audio recording and the printed book emerged, even saying books would destroy people’s brains. We are actually reaching abundance; the data shows it, but our narratives sadly lag far behind." > **— Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 23:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7hdOwJj4&t=1419s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Salim Ismail|Salim Ismail]] - [[wiki/Post-Employment Economy|Post-Employment Economy]] - [[wiki/Abundance Economics|Abundance Economics]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The first article we could find predicting that robots or AI would take all the jobs within five years appeared in 1964. We become trapped in these tropes and cannot get out of them. People made similar claims when audio recording and the printed book emerged, even saying books would destroy people’s brains. We are actually reaching abundance; the data shows it, but our narratives sadly lag far behind." — Salim Ismail, MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-salim-ismail-narratives-job-loss-lag-behind-abundance ```