AI has taken good paying, stable jobs

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You haven't read Project 2025 idiot.

Police officers and Firefighters no more pay for injured on the job and no overtime pay. Yeah ...... Defund the police that's don the con.

You keep trying, it’s almost endearing.

Police and Firefighters are employees of counties or municipalities. How does Trump or Stephen Miller change the policies at those levels? The general public mistakenly believes that every department receives large allotments of federal funding. They do not. Additionally, Trump’s OBBB created a tax credit for overtime that disproportionately advantages police officers and firefighters.

Do better.

No you do better Project 2025 100% says no more overtime pay required. It is a law that they get time and a half on holidays and over time pay.

You do better.

[Anonymous]

"Trump’s OBBB created a tax credit for overtime that disproportionately advantages police officers and firefighters."

Liar this is not a thing you moron.

[Anonymous]

The overtime tax deduction
A deduction, not an exemption: The OBBB provides a federal tax deduction, not an exemption, on a portion of overtime pay. The deduction lowers a taxpayer's taxable income, which can result in less tax owed or a larger refund.
"The half," not "time and a half": The deduction only applies to the premium portion of overtime wages—the "half" in "time and a half". For example, a worker earning $30 per hour in overtime (on a $20 regular rate) can only deduct the $10 premium, not the full $30.
Excludes payroll taxes: The deduction applies only to federal income tax, not to payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare.
Caps and phaseouts: The deduction is capped at $12,500 for individuals ($25,000 for married couples filing jointly) and begins to phase out at higher income levels.

Police and Firefighters are screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today, NVDA's market cap reached 5 Trillion dollars, there are a lot of people who have made tons of money off of NVDA, myself included. However, as I was reading the NVDA reddit forum, I was wondering that we have 2 classes now, one class of people who have the funds to invest in the market and make money and the others who not only can't participate in the stock market AI boom but also are losing their jobs to AI. The situation as it currently stands is unsustainable, I am not hearing any properly thought out arguments as to how do we plan to managing disruption to society on such a large scale.

It's really the tale of two cities and that did not end well for the haves. I am a naturalized citizen, I left my country because middle class in America was solid and strong, it hurts me to see that what I left behind is now becoming the reality here. One one hand people are losing access to food stamps or losing jobs, on the other hand people making lots of money in stock market or in other recession proof careers, the gap is widening and it's heartbreaking. Americans elected to put billionaires in charge of the economy and their future, what could go wrong?

This is so spot on!

[Anonymous]

Where is Gen Z? Other countries have Gen Z getting fed up with current government and taking matters into their own hands. Are the Gen Zs in the US just busy behind their screens scrolling on Insta? When are they going to walk out and demand change to all this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is Gen Z? Other countries have Gen Z getting fed up with current government and taking matters into their own hands. Are the Gen Zs in the US just busy behind their screens scrolling on Insta? When are they going to walk out and demand change to all this?

That angle is being taken care of https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces
“Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest“
Go and vote while you still can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

HVAC, mechanics, and all of the skilled trades are already being reduced to “techs” as PE is taking over the space.

The computers will take care of the high skilled diagnostic work (already happening for cars), and leave the humans to do the physical labor for incredibly low pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is a sloppy mess. My hope is it will be over in 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Yeesh. Don't become a teacher, kids. I am and it’s getting to the point that I might prefer to be unemployed.

[Anonymous]

The revolution will not be digitized

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

If you're not a consumer then you can spend time on the Amazon wheel of pain using your body to generate more electricity for their AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No you do better Project 2025 100% says no more overtime pay required. It is a law that they get time and a half on holidays and over time pay.

I’m still waiting to hear how Project 2025 will manage to influence local governments across the nation when very few departments receive any funding at all from the Feds. BTW, the OBBB created the tax credit through 2028, so you’ll sound uninformed for at least another 3 years.

Anonymous wrote:"Trump’s OBBB created a tax credit for overtime that disproportionately advantages police officers and firefighters."

Liar this is not a thing you moron.

Anonymous wrote:The overtime tax deduction
A deduction, not an exemption: The OBBB provides a federal tax deduction, not an exemption, on a portion of overtime pay. The deduction lowers a taxpayer's taxable income, which can result in less tax owed or a larger refund.
"The half," not "time and a half": The deduction only applies to the premium portion of overtime wages—the "half" in "time and a half". For example, a worker earning $30 per hour in overtime (on a $20 regular rate) can only deduct the $10 premium, not the full $30.
Excludes payroll taxes: The deduction applies only to federal income tax, not to payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare.
Caps and phaseouts: The deduction is capped at $12,500 for individuals ($25,000 for married couples filing jointly) and begins to phase out at higher income levels.

Police and Firefighters are screwed.

For the benefit of the above posters that must have missed the interesting discussion about police and the overtime tax credit in another DCUM section, I’ve included some quotes below. There is also an overtime tax credit calculator that estimates the amount of the credit for you.

https://ottcalculator.com/

Anonymous wrote:Cops benefit bigly. Most Americans are not cops and won’t benefit much from no tax on OT.

Anonymous wrote:The example below was posted pages ago but the poster it was directed towards disappeared. You seem smart. Please let me know what a person in this position could expect as their benefit from the overtime tax credit.

How about a young Fairfax cop earning a $90k salary that clocks 1k hours of overtime a year and files jointly with his wife who is a school teacher?

$90k salary

$65k in overtime

$80k spouse salary

Married filing jointly

Anonymous wrote:The tax benefit for that example is $4,954

An extra $5k is a nice little bonus for a person that was going to work that number of hours anyway. Think of all those salaried employees working 60 hours a week that aren’t receiving overtime OR a tax refund for the extra hours.

[Anonymous]

If my agency is any example, they will deploy ai on the most useless way by, instead of using it to automate busywork, try to make it do impossible things. Then they force us to use it which actually slows us down because it is ill suited to this purpose. Then they fire people claiming we anre now more efficient but really just needing to justify cutting back and they increase our workload.

Has anyone had chat gpt revolutionize their life positively? I think the google search algorithm was far more revolutionary and that’s because it uses actual people! Honestly this whole thing is emperors new clothes to me.

[Anonymous]

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.