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If AI only blows away programming, sure you are probably right. If AI blows away white collar labor, which is at least half of jobs, then yeah something would give way.


And if AI blows away all white collar labor, those former white color workers will be unable to afford much blue collar labor, which will hurt the blue collar labor market too.


not to mention some number will switch to blue collar (or try to) and pretty much everything will tumble down.

Have to start making our own steel in the backyard and killing sparrows




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