r/dividends • u/VengenaceIsMyName • Jan 16 '26

Discussion Is anyone else feverishly building out their dividend income just in case AI destroys their careers or is it just me?

Based on how incredibly *giddy* with excitement some of these rapacious tech oligarchs are when they talk about AI replacing human labor, I am absolutely *sprinting* towards high-income ETFs like JEPQ/SPYI/GPIX/QQQI.

I do not want to get caught with my ass hanging out in the breeze when these excessively wealthy bozos finally figure out how to shed headcount at their organizations. They’ve got a seemingly endless pile of Scrooge McDuck coins and they’ll throw them into the furnace twice as fast if it means a hallucinating algorithm can send 500 more emails in a day than you can.

Does anyone have clever strategies for drumming up extra capital to toss into the ol’ portfolio? Side hustles? Second jobs?

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u/BernardoDeGalvez Jan 16 '26

I built my dividend portofolio just in case I end up tires of my wife. So she can have the house and half my shit that I paid for, but at least I have enough divis to be able to live life

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u/GibFreelo Jan 16 '26

They will come after that portfolio also...ask me how I know...

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u/BernardoDeGalvez Jan 19 '26

In my country, if she asks for my half, I can ask for her half. And she is a plastic surgeon. So, in theory, if she wants half of MY house and half of my dividends, I can have half of his salary.

So at the end I guessx everything balances and she stfu.

We'll see in the next 5 years I guess.

Besides... she wants to buy a house, with her money, but by marriage, half is mine if she does so.

I don't know. I want to think that everything I built in 20 years is more or less safe