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the sense of unease comes from people fearing for their livelihood, given that it looks like that their raison d'être is about to be revoked by some AI automating their career awayYou're on the same boat with Carmack if that's where you find the danger. Then his advice applies.
People have had their livelihood threatened since forever – that is not a new state of affairs. That anxiety we're well equipped to deal with, hard (and genocidal) as it sometimes is.
Just another gold rush for resources, and for status, and for reproductive success. A new caste of winners. Same old.
> so 20-30% of you will be out of a job in the next 15 years
My point was that jobs (and money, and market…) are a machine that serves human ends. The end consumer is always a human, that's our economy's anchor point.
Whatever energy is put to work is ultimately in service of someone getting laid or fed, or their desires/ideals (~firings inside their brains).
As long as that's true, "keep your eyes on delivering value to humans" is a safe bet – just like Carmack says.
Mine was a simple thermodynamical note on Nature (e.g. via one of its creations, humans) finding a more efficient way to bulldoze energy gradients, the true currency of the universe, thus unanchoring our "jobs and careers" system. By cutting out the very expensive middle man.
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Your remark on communism is also interesting in that sense. I see a parallel in that the concept of dissolution of individual into a commune, has been introduced several times in large societies, each time resulting in millions of deaths and general devastation. Yet it keeps bouncing back – some very strong attraction basin lurking there, evolutionarily speaking. Not to be trivialized by snarky political one-liners.