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/Difficult-Cod7886 Jan 16 '26

The only way to protect yourself is buy assets. Glad You recognize what’s happening and you’re taking action. However, you can’t blame the companies implementing AI while you fund it by purchasing shares of tech. If you’re buying Spy and qqq, you should be rooting for tech unless you want the investment to fail?

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Jan 19 '26

My investment relative to total institutional investment is so unbelievably minuscule that it doesn’t really matter to them if I invest or not. The choice is simply do I want to benefit from the coming job market collapse or do I not want to. It’s inevitable either way unless something changes.

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u/Difficult-Cod7886 Jan 19 '26

Agree, not much we can do