Psychology Today | 01.05.2026 20:48
Let’s start with a number that should reframe, not calm, the AI conversation. According to the ILO Employment and Social Trends 2026, 408 million people globally want paid work and cannot get it. The “jobs gap” goes far beyond unemployment; it includes the discouraged, the underemployed, and those who stopped looking. More than the entire population of the United States is, today, economically stranded.
