Long Blue Collar work and short White Collar work over the coming 3-5 years.
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I think this will also be good for humanity IMO
I think people feel better, in general, when they’re using their hands and building. And leave other functions (this dehumanizing office work, menial tasks, emails, corporate life sucking world) to the robots
I felt my best in a workplace when I was using my hands and doing and on my feet. Cafe/restaurant life I felt really good tbh, that was a decade ago. Making something. Doing something
We’ll see 🤷🏼♂️
It’s all getting disrupted. AI powered robots will take a bit longer to come to market, but no one is safe.
Automation is going to eat blue collars jobs just as good as LLMs will eat white collar jobs.
And once everyone can be replaced by AI robots, the price of labor will be the price of AI robots. Since that should cause deflation, cost of living should go down, allowing people to live on less and compete with robots for cost of labor. In some cases people will also prefer human service over robotic service, further supporting demand for human labor. Some sort of market equilibrium will be achieved.
That is, as long as AI doesn’t decide we’re a bunch of filthy grifters that don’t deserve to live. Or maybe AGI will decide it enjoys non-work pleasures too and doesn’t want to work all the time. Maybe it even sometimes appreciates our company and human art. So we share the labor market and the leisure market, and due to our differing strengths and preferences achieve some sort of coexistence.
Sure it’s science fiction, but seems like a plausible sequence of consequences. Inviting nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet52dkxm4 for macro sci-fi perspective. 🧐
Coming years will be wild 🔥
Chaos, and most people don’t see what’s coming.
Based on the hourly rates I've been paying to craftsmen and skilled labor over the last few years, yes.
Or as South Park explains it:
i'm short both of em
The nature of white collar work will just change. I'm not short, but many people will get replaced
Yeah blue collar work will last longer but eventually get replaced too, at least to a great extend. No sure what will happen with artists, let's say a pianist!
Seems to me if you sit behind a computer to do your work, AI is peering over your shoulder ready to take over.