20-30% white collar unemployment in the next 12-18 months -- how much blame will Trump get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need a marketing team of 10-12 when AI can do their jobs in 10 seconds?

The company I work for got rid of the marketing department in late 2023. We kept a senior employee and one lower level employee. They are responsible for proofing and humanizing the AI output.

Our open rate hovers at 43%, which if you know anything about targeted marketing campaigns, that's a phenomenal open rate, and significantly up from our previous rate of 28%. The conversion rate also increased from 4% to 7%, which again, 7% is phenomenal.

We eliminated half of our technical writers in 2024. Again, AI is doing 80% of the work and the humans left are proofers and humanizers to the output.

And we upgraded our AI package this year to one that is sales-lead focused. So far, ~4 months in, we're getting good, quality AI generated sales leads, which has increased productivity for our sales team.

Yeah... it's legit NOW and in 12-18 months it's going to be legit for a lot more.

Ford is laying off most of its white collar workforce this year...

so who takes the political blame for not preparing us?

Trump. Didn't the BBB have something in there about state's not being able to regulate AI for 10 years? If you believe OP's axios article, 30%+ of jobs will be gone in 10 years.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/03/artificial-intelligence-moratorium-future-regulation

[Anonymous]

Narrator: this is not in fact happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to AI, it's happening. Coders, lawyers, most content creators (PR, technical writers), HR, payroll, etc. all going to be out of work.

It's going to be UGLY... how much blame will Trump get?

Do you have a citation for your claim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learn to weld

Robots will do the welding soon. They will be designed and controlled by AI.

It’s a myth that AI will only affect “white color” jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to AI, it's happening. Coders, lawyers, most content creators (PR, technical writers), HR, payroll, etc. all going to be out of work.

It's going to be UGLY... how much blame will Trump get?

He will just whine and cry "Biden Biden" because he's an uneducated narcissistic moron....like his followers.

[Anonymous]

I agree that plumbing is among the professions safest from AI, for now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Job loss due to automation has been predicted since the start of the industrial revolution. We haven't seen mass unemployment yet. I'll believe it when I see it. Jobs will change, but there will be jobs.

My thoughts exactly.

As an aside, it is great to see young people deciding not to go to college and learning a trade instead - auto mechanic, plumbing, carpentry, welding......all jobs that pay well and will be around for some time to come.

Who is going to buy the new houses these carpenters and plumbers are building if all the white collar workers are laid off?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having interacted with AI, I am not expecting this.

Me neither. I’m not impressed, and I don’t buy that it will be able to do all of these things.

The ai you see is not what just replaced 9k Microsoft workers.

It can code better than a person… it can do design better than a person. And the bar for doing a good job at customer service, HR, 80 percent of accounting, any kind of healthcare clerical work, is quite low. And its abilities double every six months.

It can do most engineering problems with less degree of error, 24hrs a day and no back talk.


Most white collar workers are cooked.

Sure, keep pumping up those AI stocks in your portfolio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to AI, it's happening. Coders, lawyers, most content creators (PR, technical writers), HR, payroll, etc. all going to be out of work.

It's going to be UGLY... how much blame will Trump get?

Do you have a citation for your claim?

Yeah I already put a very credible one in with much higher estimates.

Ford says they’re cutting at least 50 percent of white collar workforce in the next 18. Amazon expects to eliminate almost all white collar jobs - and remember NoVa wanted to be the second Amazon campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Learn to weld

Robots will do the welding soon. They will be designed and controlled by AI.

It’s a myth that AI will only affect “white color” jobs.

True - and even tho he’s on the outs with Trump now, musk has normalized slashing tens of thousands of jobs arbitrarily- so jobs like the auto workers who have had some protections will be tossed out.

[Anonymous]

Have you read Elon’s predictions for Grok 4?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you read Elon’s predictions for Grok 4?

He’s terrible at predictions but also committed to laying everyone off… so I’d worry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to AI, it's happening. Coders, lawyers, most content creators (PR, technical writers), HR, payroll, etc. all going to be out of work.

It's going to be UGLY... how much blame will Trump get?

He will get no blame because no one holds him accountable for anything. But the layoffs aare not because of AI but rather the slowdown of the economy due to Trump's tariffs and corresponding government and corporate layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Job loss due to automation has been predicted since the start of the industrial revolution. We haven't seen mass unemployment yet. I'll believe it when I see it. Jobs will change, but there will be jobs.

My thoughts exactly.

As an aside, it is great to see young people deciding not to go to college and learning a trade instead - auto mechanic, plumbing, carpentry, welding......all jobs that pay well and will be around for some time to come.

Unless no one has money to hire these trades people because they lost thier jobs. I guess trades people can work for trades people, but at lower rates because more carpenters than needed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Job loss due to automation has been predicted since the start of the industrial revolution. We haven't seen mass unemployment yet. I'll believe it when I see it. Jobs will change, but there will be jobs.

My thoughts exactly.

As an aside, it is great to see young people deciding not to go to college and learning a trade instead - auto mechanic, plumbing, carpentry, welding......all jobs that pay well and will be around for some time to come.

Unless no one has money to hire these trades people because they lost thier jobs. I guess trades people can work for trades people, but at lower rates because more carpenters than needed?

Yes, it’s going to be very bad for everyone. And Trump isn’t doing ANYTHING to prepare us.