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Re: If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?

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Post by HellDunkel » Sun, Sep 07, 2025, 7:13 AM UTC

barriteau wrote: post #17

Regarding the popular belief that AI will take jobs... If 10 (or 2 or 20...) developers can be replaced by 1 dev using AI, why fire 9 (or 1 or 19) of them when your competitors now could be 10X (or 2X or 20X) more productive by giving AI tools to their 10 (or 2 or 20...) devs? If you own an organization and can afford to pay the salaries of 10 (or 2 or 20...) souls, you'd have to be very cheap and short-sighted to pr…

We see the opposite happening with companies getting rid of employees and pouring ever penny into AI not to get left behind in the race.

Re: If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 07, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

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Re: If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?

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Post by mrdependable » Sun, Sep 07, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

My guess is spending by the wealthy will continue to grow. The economy will shift to serve their needs more and more. At a certain point, middle and lower class will no longer be needed. Everyone who isn't rich will exist in a secondary economy with their own markets.