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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

Mark my words: Attorneys and accountants - 90% gone before 2030. The "domino effect" will be when the $180K year CPA defaults on his/her mortgage - will cascade throughout the debt-ridden, fiat currency, bubble economy.

Tom Lamendola's avatar

Remember what Jesus said about the end of the age in Mathew. If He didn’t shorten those days there would be no human left! Very easy to see why isn’t it!

Bowman's avatar

Some of us have gotten very complacent

Christians in name only no works

I guess lukewarm would describe it

I Read that somewhere Rev. 3:16

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DA's avatar
May 27Edited

Yeah, and just wait until AI completely takes over and is instructed to start killing human beings just for the sake eliminating all of us. Think I'm kidding?, read between the lines and read your Bible.

Bowman's avatar

Looking around they are in the process of culling the population !!

Susan Chapman's avatar

I think this will be the way the Antichrist shows his self.

Just Comment's avatar

Canada seems to be going that way quick.

Canada enthusiastically embraces euthanasia

https://theinterim.com/issues/euthanasia-suicide/canada-enthusiastically-embraces-euthanasia/

Lee Chambers's avatar

Its not just the big companies. Smaller ones as well. Several local fast food drive thrus now have ai assistants taking orders. Most think of ai taking white collar jobs but it is taking entry level blue collar service industry jobs as well.

C G Davis's avatar

We need to hire "Sarah Connor" to get rid of all these AI and Robots! Seriously

I stopped doing business and purchasing things at businesses who have inserted AI and Robots into their mix.

Went to our favorite ole timers cafe couple months ago. They had 2 robot waitresses bringing food to people's tables.

We haven't been back.

We saw an ad from that café recently that they have removed the robot waitresses and that they are hiring now.

Ha!

FreedomFighter's avatar

AI will be the end of a long trend of replacing humans with machines. Robots have been replacing humans for a long time-- in the auto industry, in warehousing. Rich business owners are greedy and are getting more so. If you can be replaced by a machine or a computer, you are in the wrong job. The safest jobs are technical/mechanical-- electricians, plumbers, auto mechanics. Most of these jobs need the human hand.

WhetherMan's avatar

"AI" is merely an excuse for layoffs

CEO's have taken note that Elon Musk laid off 80% of the staff at "X" (formerly Twitter) and the company never missed a beat in its' normal operations.

They are all trying to do the same thing.

They will probably fail.

Bob Spence's avatar

With the younger people facing such a dim future - less good paying jobs , higher prices everywhere you look , non affordable housing , this is a perfect recipe for massive , violent Civil Unrest..

Just Comment's avatar

Do you think this is a worldwide future trend, or just here in America ?

Joe Simsbury's avatar

AI is what they are saying but the truth is that they over hired and they didn’t run their businesses effectively so now people get laid off. I am in the middle of this world so I know exactly what’s happening.

These companies need to redesign their organizations and then when they do, then they will start hiring again.

There will be some professionals losing their jobs, but as long as AI hallucinates and drifts, these industries will protect themselves.

Right now, major law firms have been sanctioned and find heavily by judges because they used AI in some of their pleadings and the AI made stuff up. That’s why many law firms are saying you are not allowed to use AI. I don’t know why they’re doing that when what they should be doing is creating a job where it is the responsibility of someone to make sure that the Case law that is represented by the attorney is accurately represented. That’s an example of a new AI job is checking on the AI.

Where people should actually be concerned are some of the AI models that are coming out that have the ability to get into company systems like smaller banks and credit unions and fine areas of vulnerability for hackers

Terry's avatar

The jobs of the future will be in security....... Private armies protecting the rich from the poor.

Just Comment's avatar

You are right, security is needed big time in the future if society breaks down.

Although, one of these days, someone will invent mountable cameras which can match facial and body shapes, so that the "camera" can trigger "a home defense system" to shoot and kill strangers ? Hopefully, the delivery guys will also be robots then.

Marianne Marugg's avatar

Leider lässt sich der Artikel nicht in deutsch ûbersetzen, da ich ihn gerne in meinen Telegram Kanal posten môchte und nicht alle Leser der engl.Sprache mächtig sind.

Danke fûr alle Infos! Gott segne Sie in unserem Herrn Jesus Christus

Maria Reynolds's avatar

As I read this article, I recall the book of revelation. The hunger etc.

What about the World Economic Forum, you will own nothing and be happy! All nations are at the verge of financial collapse. Is only a matter of time. Our only hope is our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Displacement Audit's avatar

The 99% stat is the one that should be getting more attention.

Every exec surveyed. Not most. Not a majority. Every single one is planning cuts. That's not a trend. That's a consensus.

The food insecurity data next to the Meta layoffs in the same piece is doing something most coverage won't do. Connecting the macro to the human. Bill Brantner's bumper held on with Gorilla Tape. Kris Massey selling her grandmother's jewelry. These aren't edge cases. The edge is moving toward the middle.

The part I'd push back on slightly is the K-shaped framing. The K assumes two trajectories diverging from the same starting point. What's happening in tech right now isn't divergence. It's extraction. The productivity gains are real. The headcount savings are real. They're just not going anywhere near the people who generated them.

That gap doesn't close on its own.