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musicale on Aug 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser

It's the trajectory of automation for the past few decades. Automate many jobs out of existence, and add a much smaller set of higher-skill jobs.

enjo on Aug 2, 2025 | [–]

Yep but this time is different because it's going to completely displace what is left of the middle class and this time the people being fucked have six figures of college debt.

AlecSchueler on Aug 1, 2025 | [–]

Centuries, surely? "In the year of eighteen and two, peg and awl..."

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