I don't think AI is driving up food and housing and fuel prices. I really don't think AI is a chair-kicker yet. To me, the biggest threat to jobs that AI offers is in the field of software engineering, and yet, it's not the software engineers that are really feeling the pain right now.

Wars in Iran, tariffs, Medicaid cuts, SNAP benefit cuts, rising insurance costs, etc. are what are causing average folks pain, and that is completely unrelated to AI.