There already aren't enough jobs. Keeping everyone employed already depends on copious amounts of bullshit jobs that could easily be replaced by an LLM, as well as countless other non-bullshit professions where the entire left half of the IQ curve could be replaced by an LLM working under a human supervisor.
The first wave of industrial automation led to the modern welfare state, unemployment benefits, medicare, social security, etc. Hopefully if we're indeed in a new wave of intellectual automation, it leads to universal basic income. I want to do work that I want to do, for the sake of myself, my life, friends and family, and personal fulfillment... not out of coercion.
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