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Later generations will have less attachment to how things were when they grew up because everything changes a lot faster. (lemmy.world)
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Or at the very least less common attachment because they grew up outside of a monoculture.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

We’re already seeing mass layoffs. You might not have realized if yet, but there’s now more competition for your job, as people in jobs easily replaced or minimized by LLMs are now considering what to try and do next.

Even if your job simply cannot be done by AI, that state is temporary, and it can be done by all the people who will become jobless because their old job can be done by AI.

I’m feeling rather snooty tonight so I’ll go ahead and quote Bob Dylan:

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

There will be a way through this, but it will mean either the extinction and creation of many job species resulting in a change in how we spend our days which is a huge component of life (consider a textile worker versus an uber driver as jobs and hence lifestyles), or it will mean the introduction of UBI, or both. And that’s all massive change.