same wages and less jobs to go around
If we’re lucky. It’s more likely to be lower wages. “We don’t need to pay experienced programmers anymore, they aren’t writing the code after all. We just need cheaper, less skilled people to review the code that is already 99% fine”.
💯 Not about the tech, it’s about who is going to use the tech to make life worse for the working class.
From my days modding an outdoor hobby subreddit, the only “risk” I saw wasn’t direct where I was fearful of being sued or anything.
We would get posts about missing hikers, if you have info please call/email these personal contact numbers. It was the type of post I was quickest to lock down. I would pin a mod comment telling people with info to contact law enforcement, NOT the poster and definitely NOT to put details on reddit anywhere. It’s not unheard of for an abusive person to post a “help me find my loved one victim” request.
Second most urgent type of post I locked down where the “hey, I found these mushrooms/berries/animal remains on the trail, I can eat them, right?”. Sweet baby jeebus, trusting Internet strangers on something like that is almost as bad as trusting an LLM.
They don’t believe in either so the Dilemma is not a dilemma for them.
Hopefully they inherit the psychopomp job too and it is a career resilient to AI and self-driving cars. If Waymo works in the Underworld, they will be looking for new career options like every other Z and younger.
If they want the job, of course. I’m not one of those old school escorts of the dead that insists the kids follow in parents’ footsteps.