| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | |
> If huge swaths of office workers are suddenly and permanently unemployed, who's going to be hiring all these tradesmen? "Professionals were 57.8 percent of the total workforce in 2023, with 93 million people working across a wide variety of occupations" [1]. A reasonable worst-case scenario leaves about half of the workforce intact as is. We'd have to assume AI creates zero new jobs or industries, and that none of these people can pivot into doing anything socially useful, to expect them to be rendered unemployable. > if a significant chunk of the population is made permanently unemployed They won't. They never have. We'd have years to debate this in the form of unemployment insurance extensions. [1] https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-te... | ||
| ▲ | johnnyanmac 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
>We'd have to assume AI creates zero new jobs or industries Zero American jobs, sure. It's clear that these american industries don't want to invest in America. >They won't. They never have. not permanent, but trends don't look good. It doesnt' remain permanent because mass unemployment becomes a huge political issue at some point. As is it now among Gen Z who's completely pivoted in the course of a year. | ||