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You think there are mental health problems now? The more AI takes people's jobs, the worse mental health problems we'll see.
I still remember when computers took everyone's jobs. Suprised there are any left.
It took decades for the computer revolution to become the personal computer revolution and businesses could adapt workflows and build out new ways to spend their R&D money (remember this was all back when stock buybacks were illegal, so companies were still investing in themselves) to fill the headcounts. It's taken mere months for generative AI to upend businesses and schools, destroying entire professions. I do not see the two as being highly comparable.
"Computers" used to be people who did math to run calculations. "Electronic Computers" destroyed those entire professions too. The world did not end.
Was this before or after the robots that took everybody's jobs?
The great water wars opened up a lot of jobs. I was a blood bag for a while, good dental plan but worked outdoors way too often.