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Dynamism, AI Job Loss, and California’s Resilience
My conversation with Virginia Postrel
Jarrett Catlin
July 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes
Author and thinker Virginia Postrel joins me to talk about California’s past, present, and future, from anti-growth politics to the rise of AI. We get into what dynamism really means, why creative destruction is inevitable, how California has bounced back from tough times before, and how housing and regulation shape the state’s future.
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/california-future-society/id1807612672
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0zzVSVdCUCTGuZUyl8qZXA
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVNumolJuKvqJScBEnhe8hQ
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:58 California's Changing Landscape: A Historical Perspective
07:43 Political Shifts: The Republican Party's Decline in California
10:27 Change in the California Ideology
16:24 CA vs. TX
22:45 The Impact of AI
27:22 AI Displacing White Collar Jobs
30:50 We've Seen This Before
37:30 Lessons for California's Future
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