AI wouldn't be nearly the economic threat people larp it as if most "white collar" jobs weren't just superfluous employees who basically just send emails around and attend pointless meetings. Most of the Western (and beyond) economy has been fake "service" based BS since something like the 70s, ESPECIALLY for the middle-class and up. In essence the danger isn't really for blue collar working class people. It will always be easier and cheaper to just hire someone to sweep floors than invest in glorified roombas. But AI despite not being sentient like the memes imply, can send as convincing an email as most office NPCs.Makes all those scifi movies, etc, about how robots and AI were going to make working class people redundant ironic. It's partly why the White collar class in most developed societies are so obsessed with importing migrant scab labor. They can feel their position in society under threat and they can sense despite all the years of angst-fueled contempt, that working class people have a firmer foundation of economic security, even if it's less prosperous for various reasons.
there is a great book called bullshit jobs about well just that, and how many are basically invented to simply serve the consumer economy. as far as white collar only, i was in a meeting a couple weeks ago discussing private equity allocation to AI with the exact goal of replacing blue collar work, first specifically plumbing and electrical. We're not even the big boys and we're putting in billions. the tech is already there, AI is plenty good, computer vision and ID is plenty good, robotics is the challenge and also already plenty good. the issue is cost, it makes no sense to pay 10 million dollars for a terminator to do plumbing work, the payoff is too slow. the cost is dropping 50-80% a year, so 3-5 years you will be able to have a machine in your house repairing your sink or light switch. I see trades going the way of former trades, niche upper market. There are still custom shoe makers, just a whole lot less than 100 years ago.
>>62851165Please, the amount of money and manufacturing required makes replacing trades impossible. Robots doing simple tasks like flipping burgers maybe, not replacing a sink.OP is right, far too many worthless send-one-email jobs. The fat needs culling. It's already happening. Microsoft laid off 60,000 employees (about 25% to 27% of its global workforce). Plumbers are being laid off, it's the HR + Management positions.
True yeah we should all compete with exponentially increasing efficient technologies for lower and lower wages and we should absolutely not question who this is benefiting, sounds great
>>62851196Yeah but Microsoft is also turning around and hiring indians into those positions. A completely different story from what you are telling me where they replace useless fake jobs with AI.
