Technology

The socialism was implied; the things going to shit for a lot of us part, I spelled out in multiple comments in this behemoth of a thread, though not explicitly in this exact chain, so let's take a look.

Let's start here

Me mentioning how much it sucks that we're automating knowledge work while leaving around boring physical jobs

With that context in mind, let's go up directly in this comment chain:

You:

Except healthcare and education are also getting dismantled.

And the companies aren’t being taxed.

That other guy:

There are a lot jobs that a computer simply cannot do, because they are not humans. Especially the ones that require human contact and interaction. Until we have a robot that can mimic a human those jobs are safe. The jobs that require you to make calculations or provide input into a computer are most at risk.

And I know the companies are being taxed, that’s why I said let’s tax them.

To which I finally replied:

Can you name 5 jobs where human contact is strictly necessary and I’ll see if I can explain how AI will replace those people anyway?

I think you can see how I'm trying to point out to him that none of us is safe and we're all beyond fucked, while he's trying to claim "oh you can just work in healthcare or education", not realizing those industries are also going to be disrupted by cost cuttings.

I'm not even going to link it here because it was super long, but I also explained in a more recent comment that it's not my opinion that AI will do those jobs as good as a human or better. It's that AI will be cheap and "good enough" and people can be laid of en masse.

Long story short (and this is something I didn't explicitly mention in any of my other comments): I think human contact in social and health services is going to be a luxury in the future. Rich people will send their kids to private schools with good teachers, rest of us will have to send ours to public schools with AI doing most of the heavy lifting. Rich people will see a doctor in person, poor people will see someone significantly less training who uses AI as a diagnostic tool and only consults a real doctor when actually needed. Etc.