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A top economist's fears, and the jobs 60 Minutes viewers think are safe

The Short barely stirred on its first day, then drew ten times its usual pace on the second, with a comment section working out who still has a job once AI arrives.

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Why this story? The video is running at 44,734 views a day, 10 times its usual pace (4,251).

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A Short from 60 Minutes usually does most of its living on its first day. This one barely stirred: "Top economist fears for the future #shorts" drew about 4,000 views in its first 24 hours, then nearly 45,000 more the next day.

The title does not name the economist or say what the fear is. The comment section fills that gap, and the subject there is work: who keeps a job once automation and AI have done their part. The clip went up a day before the full Sunday broadcast reached the channel. That episode opened with a segment called "Who Needs Humans?" and asked whether AI will take your job or change the way you do it.

Viewers arrive with their own lists. One long comment predicts that office workers are about to go through what factory workers faced in the 1980s and 1990s, starting with customer service. Others bet on the jobs where people pay for a person: hairstylists, tattoo artists, anything built on taste and conversation. Several ask the same practical question: who buys anything if half the country is out of work? One viewer brings up Elysium, Neill Blomkamp's film about a world split between a protected few and everyone else. Another just wants to know if someone keeps a list of the top 20 economists.

The rest of the channel's new uploads lean on anniversaries: an archive report on a bomb-hunting unit, posted 25 years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, and Lesley Stahl's interview with grandparents who saved their family on a kibbutz on October 7. The most watched of the Thom Tillis Shorts from the same broadcast has the senator daring a correspondent to leap across the Capitol subway tracks. The slow-starting economist clip has now passed every one of them.

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What viewers say

  • Hairstylists and Tattoo artists....and other "social" professionals where more than 50% of what people are buying from you is your personality/taste/interaction.

    Gonna be a wild future.
    @blarneystienSee it on YouTube
  • You can't replace love and kindness with AI. People will pay more money for a human experience than an artificial one IMO
    @MsClaytownSee it on YouTube
  • Is there a list of top 20 economists?
    @jboyg-l3pSee it on YouTube
4 more comments
  • When you start a sentence with "literally", question it. 🤔
    @lupec68See it on YouTube
  • Have we all seen a movie called Elysium, well get used to it because that's where we are all heading.
    @azazel7139See it on YouTube
  • The point of automation is to increase the productivity per person. You can't both expand the gdp and have negative brith rates without massive immigration, which isn't sustainable.
    @jtownballSee it on YouTube
  • Well, I’m not sure which way this is gonna go, because who am I? But I think there is an alternate is that AI will empower more and more people to be independent. And or empower more small business owners. Perhaps giant employers will downsize, but AI will also empower millions of people. I like that future a little better than what’s being presented.
    @chuxideas1234See it on YouTube

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The facts
Channel
60 Minutes
Subscribers
4,210,000
Channel views, last 7 days
4,158,069
Channel views, pace per day
675,825 (on a normal day: 616,419)
Video published
October 6, 2026
Video views so far
49,112 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day
44,734 (on a normal day: 4,251)

The numbers

A Short that started slowly is now moving ten times faster than usual, on a day the whole channel is running a little above its normal pace.

views per day, this video
typical day
4,251
now
44,734
subscribers
4,210,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
1,421,175,067
views per day
675,825
typical day: 616,419
the video
views
49,112
likes
656
comments
38
days online
2
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
GameofThrones
4,880,000
BuzzFeed Celeb
4,280,000
60 Minutes
4,210,000
BBC Studios
3,880,000
Crypt TV
3,810,000
VH1
3,540,000
As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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