I think the difference here is that LLMs are powerful, general purpose and suite...

I think the difference here is that LLMs are powerful, general purpose and suited to take on many common office tasks as well as accelerate programming work. I think “we need 10% fewer white collar workers” is a massively destabilizing scenario that is not very far fetched.

I also completely agree that society/politics will not have caught up with these developments in time to mitigate them.