Let's not fool ourselves about AI taking jobs. It's humans, laying humans off(circuitbored.com)
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Let's not fool ourselves about AI taking jobs. It's humans, laying humans off
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No, no, we cannot question capitalism, verboten! Nein!
It's as true as saying that I lost my truck driving job because of Mexicans. And it's just as well-informed.
The economy and job markets are big and inscrutable things. There are contractions going on now that have been in the works for a while. Mentioning "The Great Reset" may win downvotes here, but what we really noticed during the pandemic was the elimination of cost centers and the cutting back of amenities, increasing security and basically, "circling the wagons" or closing ranks.
SWEs, DevOps, cybersecurity, tech support and CSR: those are all cost centers. They don't earn any profits in any business. They may protect them and limit legal exposure, but they don't make number go up. So if corps have over-hired in those areas then they've got to let attrition take its course, and why not blame A.I. at this point, because it's an amorphous non-human entity that no two people define the same way.
Sure, the old seasoned neckbeards are being supplanted by kids who played video games and know prompt engineering, but that's always the way of the world. It's graduation time again. Maybe you got fired because the university commencements were just brimming with DEI STEM hires enough to make C*Os salivate. All the better if their graduation reels show a lot of makeup and skin under their baccalaureate gowns.
Face it: the education world has fully ramped up to flood STEM/IT/tech workers into any market they desire now. You lost because of the economy, supply and demand; blame Keynes or President Reagan. It's not A.I.