Comment by onlyrealcuzzo
Comment by onlyrealcuzzo 4 days ago
> It's uniquely American to believe that your life will end when AI takes your job.
It's probably because it's uniquely American for a sizable chunk of the workforce to have cushy jobs that appear ripe for the picking.
AI is not going to immediately replace food service work, manual labor, farming, hospitality, etc.
But it might replace quite high-paid software jobs, finance jobs, legal jobs, etc. One, if AI is good at anything it's things at least tangential to this. Two, these have costs high enough that off-setting is at least worth trying.
My suspicion is that ultimately it will lead to more of these types of jobs, though it could easily come with a huge reduction - and the jobs aren't guaranteed to be in the same countries.
You could create 3x as many of these jobs, and still end up with -25% of them in the US. Who knows.
> It's probably because it's uniquely American for a sizable chunk of the workforce to have cushy jobs that appear ripe for the picking.
What an arrogant statement.
Lots of people outside America have cushy jobs.
What's much more likely to be uniquely American is that if you lose your job there's nothing there to help you.