>I think a lot of people have falsely bought the concept that their identity is their job, because there is such material incentive for that to be the case.

This is easily said and while true, this kind of sentiment seems to neglect the fact that we live in an economic system where you need a job to survive if you're not independently wealthy.

And for that question it does make a big difference whether you are a 200k/year ML engineer, or a $20/hr LLM prompter.