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   "text": "Because micro tasks require human judgment that machines cannot currently replace, they let organizations build products and outcomes that machines alone could not synthesize.",
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   "text": "The day-to-day stability mechanism can be fully automated by algorithm, but monetary and fiscal policy choices cannot be: the algorithm's parameters must be chosen by hand and adjusted regularly to balance security against efficiency.",
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   "text": "Middlemen persist rather than being automated away because there are certain junctures in business where novel problems regularly arise whenever circumstances change, requiring creative solutions that people step in to supply, and these persistent junctures become business institutions.",
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