What the world needs now is a positive vision of the future of work. We’ve got plenty of dystopian visions of the rise of the robots, the race to the bottom of globalization, and the loss of myriad jobs on the horizon. Enough already. Marco Zappacosta, the young co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, one of the most successful startups in the sharing economy, thinks we now need more positive thinking about how the next economy could work better for everyone. Marco fully understands that advanced automation and artificial intelligence will replace many routine jobs, and that globalization will continue to undermine American jobs competing with workers in foreign countries. However, he believes people are overlooking how much opportunity lies ahead for those doing work that is non-routine and not replaceable by machines, or that can’t be traded away because the service must be provided locally. That lack of vision of how that next system could work is undermining efforts to move forward.