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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people today work in jobs that just did not exist 20, 25 years ago. Think of all the tech roles. In the 80s into the 90s, the early tech scene wasn't cool or lucrative, it was geeky. I had a few friends whose fathers were among the early coders and they made a comfortable income but nothing like today's 250, 300k+ salaries for experienced coders.

Other kinds of jobs have nearly disappeared or halved in numbers. Entire supermarkets today are staffed by seemingly half the staff they had 20 years ago. Yet the population is much larger!

I'm not afraid of AI. AI will eliminate jobs everywhere but it will also open up new opportunities. Especially in unexpected areas. The other thing about AI is that someone needs to run the programs and tell the systems what to do and reformat the output into a presentable report. [/quote]

You have to believe this or you will get depressed.

Before the Internet, there were no web designers or SEOs or Netflix, Meta, Google et al.

At the same time, the number of travel agents declined 95%…yet unemployment is still just 4.2%.

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Exactly.  Not scared. Being a medium-level travel agent was not a hard job.  Just an ordinary white collar, knowledge worker job.  I don't think a ton of people who were travel agents had trouble finding new work.

There still is work today for the kind of people that sold travel insights, curate experiences, provide high touch services, etc. There's plenty of jobs in tourism that people who love travel can do.  There just aren't a lot of people acting as a meatware interface to airline ticket booking.[/quote]

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