AI has taken good paying, stable jobs

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Anonymous wrote:I am not clear on how AI will replace doctors, lawyer, engineers, electricians, plumbers.
These professions require a license to practice and the professional liability insurance rates are high. Plus, one can lose the license with shoddy, unethical work.
What client will want AI to represent them in high stakes negotiations?

In some of these fields there won't 100% replacement but will be able to be need a handful of the original staff needed. Lawyers would be an excellent example. ChatGPT is pretty good at medical advice, you should try it.

ChatGPT basically summarizes the data of various websites I visit. Which is to say, ChatGPT doesn't provide exclusivist info, but it is good at summarizing from an aggregate. So it's a good admin who distills the prioritizes from the chaff.
But AI can't issue prescriptions. My colonoscopy was performed by a real doctor, the scope was guided by a machine, somewhat of a robot device, but the interpretative data was synthesized by my doctor.

As for lawyers, Ai can aggregate legal data from across the internet, but AI can't represent you in court. And you can't go after AI for malpractice. And of all the dumbest most routine legal processes, AI is not doing real estate closings. And I'm not sure anyone would want AI to handle their real estate closing.

I would disagree that AI is adequate for healthcare info. It can't yet discern higher/highest quality info or sources. I work in healthcare and while I note the AI findings that populate, I can almost never use them as my source of "truth."

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Anonymous wrote:Even with the top 10% being responsible for most spending, sales will drop majorly if everyone is unemployed. How’s that going to work? What’s next post consumer economy?

“Techno Feudalism” book,
Technology companies who own the data and cloud capital Vs the people who pay rent to use their system.
Just like the time of feudalism, landlords who own the land and the peasants.

Feudalism only works with subjugated populations who don't mind playing the submissive cuck role.

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Anonymous wrote:So because some people can't figure out which jobs are not going to be replaced with AI, we should just give them money to do nothing? Why didn't countries do that during the industrial revolution, when automation began to reduce the need for manual labor in many roles? Because it's a stupid idea which would merely encourage indolence instead of initiative.

There are new types of jobs developing all the time, and plenty of jobs which are largely unaffected or merely enhanced by AI. Just because you're blind to them, or too wedded to what you do now, or to what you used to do, is no reason for society to just start supporting you instead of you figuring out how to support yourself.

If you want to handle things like we did during the Industrial Revolution, you are either ignorant of history or a psychopath.

Are you familiar with the term "Luddite"? That movement was futile then and would be so now. Adapt or don't it's your choice, but society should not bear the burden of those who choose to remain stagnant.

Actually, the Luddites were smart and prescient and the king had them (corruptly) tried as criminals and they were crushed by brute force. Then the term luddite was mocked as a pejorative by the wealthy and powerful. That’s why the term is viewed as a negative by most people these days…the propaganda campaign by the wealthy elites worked very well. The truth is that the Luddites were honorable and intelligent.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like one specific example of a job someone actually had, like to job description, and how AI by itself is now doing that job.

Illustrator. Photographer.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone needs to calm down. Social media and the spread of information to the masses is just making everyone crazy.

The next available dental cleaning is in Feb
My bikini waxer is booked solid for 2 weeks
Custom sofa takes six months to receive
Hotels are booked up
My hair stylist is booked solid through the holidays
Dermatologist booked solid

Not to mention I’m practically working from the minute I get up until I go to bed. There is so much room for improving our QOL and how we spend our time.

The thing is if you look at why that is who are pulling the levers to make these decisions. I mean all of these scheduling and queuing systems seem to be an artifact of businesses trying to be more efficient and shifting the work on to the consumer. We only have to go cups, you'll have to find somewhere else to sit, because we don't provide seating anymore... Do you think that AI will move the needle the right way here? I can imagine a dystopian scenario where project managers harness AI to generate more busy work of less quality work faster for example.

The general concept here is "point shaving". Take Starbucks for example, highly automated highly optimized. It used to resemble a coffee shop, now it's like a McDonald's. They did this to shave a penny here, shave a penny there. Now the product doesn't resemble a coffee shop anymore, and I don't have anywhere to go hang out and talk with my friends. I have to get these togo cups so that I can take my coffee back to my desk so I can work harder so that I can afford a $5 cup of coffee.

See where this is going. These were all giant equations that corporations optimized to make the largest profit. AI is a giant equation that corporations optimized... to do what again? Oh yeah, suck profits out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone needs to calm down. Social media and the spread of information to the masses is just making everyone crazy.

The next available dental cleaning is in Feb
My bikini waxer is booked solid for 2 weeks
Custom sofa takes six months to receive
Hotels are booked up
My hair stylist is booked solid through the holidays
Dermatologist booked solid

Not to mention I’m practically working from the minute I get up until I go to bed. There is so much room for improving our QOL and how we spend our time.

The thing is if you look at why that is who are pulling the levers to make these decisions. I mean all of these scheduling and queuing systems seem to be an artifact of businesses trying to be more efficient and shifting the work on to the consumer. We only have to go cups, you'll have to find somewhere else to sit, because we don't provide seating anymore... Do you think that AI will move the needle the right way here? I can imagine a dystopian scenario where project managers harness AI to generate more busy work of less quality work faster for example.

The general concept here is "point shaving". Take Starbucks for example, highly automated highly optimized. It used to resemble a coffee shop, now it's like a McDonald's. They did this to shave a penny here, shave a penny there. Now the product doesn't resemble a coffee shop anymore, and I don't have anywhere to go hang out and talk with my friends. I have to get these togo cups so that I can take my coffee back to my desk so I can work harder so that I can afford a $5 cup of coffee.

See where this is going. These were all giant equations that corporations optimized to make the largest profit. AI is a giant equation that corporations optimized... to do what again? Oh yeah, suck profits out.

Starbucks built their business based on the “third space” their coffee always sucked.

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The hiring drop is synchronized across Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, AND NVIDIA.

All slammed the brakes in late-2022/early-2023... and never let go.

We’re not seeing a reversion to old patterns.

CEOs AI-wash layoffs to pump stock - real reason?

$420B capex redirected to offshore GCCs (70% savings).

Mag7 bombshells:
- Microsoft: 15K US cuts → India (especially Hyderabad/Bengaluru GCCs) was explicitly spared layoffs and saw massive expansion via $3B+ cloud investments, data centers, and hiring in strategic areas.
- Google: Thousands laid off in 2025 (HR/Cloud/Android teams) while Pichai pours $15B into Visakhapatnam hub - briefed PM Modi Oct 14
- Amazon: 14K managers gone → GCCs (Chennai, Hyderabad) are expanding with AWS/offshore boom
- Meta: 20K+ cuts → India hiring up (Blind: "massive outsourcing")

US tech postings -36% below pre-COVID.
India? +47%.

We all feel the pressure in the labor market for US workers right now.

(In India, GCC stands for Global Capability Center, which are offshore centers set up by multinational corporations. Indian bodyshops use H1Bs to transfer knowledge to GCCs)

please call your senators and representatives to thank them for supporting H1B and OPT and L1 and H4EAD which helps companies facilitate the transfer of jobs from US to India.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like one specific example of a job someone actually had, like to job description, and how AI by itself is now doing that job.

Illustrator. Photographer.

Pretty Woman in Commercial. - Tilly.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like one specific example of a job someone actually had, like to job description, and how AI by itself is now doing that job.

A friend took a self driving Uber in Atlanta.
Self driving Trucks will be available in the near future and Truck driving/ owning is a huge middle class work.
A lot of companies will use one experienced employee with AI help to do the job of what it was necessary to hire ten new employees.
Just like supermarkets are using one cashier supervising 10 self registers.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like one specific example of a job someone actually had, like to job description, and how AI by itself is now doing that job.

A friend took a self driving Uber in Atlanta.
Self driving Trucks will be available in the near future and Truck driving/ owning is a huge middle class work.
A lot of companies will use one experienced employee with AI help to do the job of what it was necessary to hire ten new employees.
Just like supermarkets are using one cashier supervising 10 self registers.

The industry has been predicting a shortage of truck drivers for years. And currently so many immigrants are doing truck driving work that the Trump administration is trying to police their English language skills.

https://ipmnewsroom.org/u-s-truck-drivers-will-need-to-prove-english-proficiency-under-new-executive-order/

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Anonymous wrote:With the trillions of dollars companies will now make by eliminating humans and replacing them with AI, these companies should pay a universal income/salary to people who would otherwise have had entry level and managerial jobs that don’t exist anymore.

This is where we are. You can’t make a living anymore with a good paying stable job. It’s not available anymore. AI should be regulated. This is already not working out. Where are people supposed to go to get their foot in the door now and make a decent living when everything is being taken over by companies that make more money than they actually need?

And guess what, consumers aren’t going to be able to buy what they offer anyway since so many of us are already unemployed and underemployed.

If you aren’t encouraging your teens to consider the following types of professions, the economic fate of your children is on you.

Athletic Trainer
Carpenter
Chef
Child Care Worker
Dentist
Doctor
Electrician
EMT
Firefighter
HVAC
Human Resources
Lawyer
Mechanic
Mental Health Practitioner
Nurse
Occupational Therapist
Paramedic
Personal Trainer
Physical Therapist
Plumber
Police Officer
Public Relations
Sales
Social Worker
Speech Pathologist
Teachers
Veterinarian

I would think law firms are going to be impacted in a big way by AI. What do lawyers think?

Maybe, if we can learn how to use it efficiently and get others to do so. It could be interesting from a billing standpoint. If something that used to take 5.5 hours now takes 1.5, you have to find something else to work on. Can you pass the AI cost onto the client, or is it overhead?

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Wouldn’t legal services now be cheaper?

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Talking about ChatGPT only when discussing AI is like talking about email only when discussing about the internet.

Probably people should watch David Letterman and Bill Gates talking about the internet in the 90th.

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Worrying about AI job losses is like worrying about acne when you have terminal cancer.

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We will see if the CEOs in charge ever figure out that they are eliminating their customers--not just their employees.