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# The Economy that Never Dies
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/the-economy-that-never-dies/
- Published: 2016-11-04T23:01:24.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-04T23:01:24.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: business, career, publishing

[Hugh MacLeod](http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=028de8672d5f9a229f15e9edf&id=187680278e&ref=cjchilvers.com#awesomeshare):

> "Business Insider projected in 2015 that over the next twenty years, we’ll lose 47% of our jobs to robots. So what’s protecting the other 53%?

> Creativity. The fundamentals of humanity.

> We will always need music, photography, books, stories -- the things that open our minds and stop our breath."

If you think making a living in these areas is easy, you're crazy. But, if you're creative enough to figure out how to do it well (like Hugh did), you'll never need to work a "job" again. 4 of the 10 richest people in the world are in the publishing business, and the other 6 rely on publishing to conduct their business. Stories run the global economy.