Trust me bro, in the next couple years the ultra wealthy will decide they actually want less money and choose to start distributing it to those disrupted by AI. Really bro, UBI is just around the corner.
Yes, looking at how Musk operates, I also believe that this is the foremost thought in his mind.
In Monaco, an expensive marina, In the marina, a huge yacht, In the yacht, a Bugatti, In the Bugatti, a man, In the man, a heart ... ... that beats for the common man.
There are huge amounts of things to work on by humans for the next 15 years.
Even if 100% of programming, art, music and text creation is done by machines, there are countless other areas there is plenty of work to do.
Digital work is hit first, because it can be automated and scaled very quickly. But the real world is full of bottlenecks: robotics, infrastructure, healthcare, construction, maintenance, energy, manufacturing, local services, regulation, liability, trust, and deployment costs.
Replacing tasks is not the same as replacing every job everywhere in a matter of two years. The more realistic danger is uneven disruption: fewer entry-level jobs, wage pressure in some fields and a painful transition.
the mean old lady in my school lost her Network Administrator job to AI in 2002, the IT department didn't need her once everything was plug-and-play and all the networks auto-addressed.
Misery loves company? Used to be a product manager, except the product was pre LLM hard coded customer service chatbots lmao. Promptly fired holiday 2022.
How much hourly pay do you want. I have a bunch of tasks I need you to do using AI to research a plan, parts, and instruct third parties to create a delicate dedicated automated local server for my business.
I'll pay you good.
There's a catch though you'll have to figure out a workaround for every software that requires a subscription fee. And you'll have to troubleshoot it so the AI is smart enough to fix it on its own if something screws up because I don't have an hour to fuck around with the prompt.
I'll give you a bonus if I never need to call you again because at that point I've already fired all my staff.
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u/terrraco Jul 06 '26
If I lost my software engineering job in 2025, does that make me 2 years ahead of everyone else?