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How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?

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Re: How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?

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The premise is flawed, I don't see AI taking jobs because companies want to grow in productivity generally speaking and would rather just make their existing employees do more; all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created.

Just by the law of large numbers, tech companies can’t grow 700% in the next decade like they have in the prior decade.

Depends on the company, I don't necessarily mean big tech, or even tech companies as we classkfy them currently.

Re: How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?

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My two year-long plan: 1. Move out of the expensive city into a lower-cost of living country. 2. Buy cheap property with cash, reduce my expenses to a minimum. 3. Take a long time off to figure out what the world will look like in a year. 4. Learn a trade skill, hand-code for fun. Considering becoming an electrician, with a hobby for retrocomputing and repairing electronics. I am at step 2 currently, and my current j…

Are you relying on long-term savings to keep you afloat?

No.
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