shillyshally t1_j0xrmx9 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:53 AM

I worked in one of the first industries to be devastated by computers and I embraced it at the time as more efficient which it was. However, those well paid union jobs were gone, gone, gone and nothing came along to replace them. This time around, the change will be more wide spread and deeper and we need to think about what that portends.

BoysenberryLanky6112 t1_j0xvjxo wrote on December 20, 2022 at 5:32 AM

Can you be more specific? I'm probably a bit younger than you I've been in the workforce for 8 years but my current job is one that replaced older jobs devestated by computers. I don't have a union but I make 225k/year with 25 days pto on top of holidays and management that treats us like adults. Most software engineers are similar and the ones who make it in big tech make my salary look like peanuts. Is there another industry where the computer replacement for the job was actually worse?

Note that I don't agree with op I'm not confident that will be reflected with ai, but I'm surprised by this take since the vast majority of jobs that replaced people with computers tend to be insanely high paying by historical and even current standards.