This has been happening forever. How do you think all those Rust Belt workers who got outsourced to China felt?
Tons of jobs were eliminated by the computer too. It’s just part of life, there’s always more work to be done. We need better ways to help people than the crap way we handled outsourcing job losses in the 90s, however
But there's a bloody big difference between being an accountant and driving a van for Jeff. That's the direction AI pushes things. "Professional"-tertiary makes up a quarter of UK jobs, and they're among the highest paying.
Half of these jobs could vanish into AI in a few years.
I'm not sure what this does to the aspirations of the next generation, but countries rely on their income tax revenues to pay for things. Nuking revenue from your highest earning eighth (and compressing the wages of the others) seems like it might be a significant issue.
Tons of jobs were eliminated by the computer too. It’s just part of life, there’s always more work to be done. We need better ways to help people than the crap way we handled outsourcing job losses in the 90s, however