Elimination of these jobs is going to be good for everyone else. It's going to reduce the unearned returns to people born with high IQs and aptitude for coding or lawyering or whatever, and reduce upper middle class wages. That, in turn, will drive down prices. The reason housing is unaffordable isn't Jeff Bezos. It's because 20% or so of workers get paid very disproportionately to everyone else and they've been bidding up the price of housing. If Google could fire all their engineers housing would become much more affordable for everyone else in the Bay Area (like it was decades ago before engineering salaries got so high). It'll be more like Iowa or South Dakota is today.

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dclowd9901 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What work do you do?

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rayiner 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Lawyer, before that a programmer. Statements are contrary to interest.

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achierius 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Extant lawyers are unlikely to be replaced in the immediate future, if only thanks to regulatory barriers.

	▲	dolebirchwood 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't matter. If technology allows lawyers to service more clients in less time and at lower costs, there will be competitive pressure among new law graduates and up-and-coming attorneys to take advantage of this technology to run their own smaller, leaner practices at more affordable prices for a larger number of people. There's no shortage of people who are in need of legal services -- they just really can't afford it so they go without it. [1] We don't need to replace lawyers, just force them to be more efficient. [1] https://justicegap.lsc.gov/resource/section-4-seeking-and-re...