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applegrove

(129,826 posts) Wed May 28, 2025, 06:43 PM May 2025

A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming [View all]

A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming

May 28, 2025 at 8:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 164 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/28/a-white-collar-bloodbath-is-coming/

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s most powerful creators of artificial intelligence, said that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Axios reports.

Applegrove:

I've been wondering why so much of MAGA policy results in death (anti vax for example, anti cancer research too, deaths of desperation) and now we know. Oligarchs need fewer people.

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A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming [View all] applegrove May 2025 OP

I think the same thing. The billionaires no longer need worker bees. Irish_Dem May 2025 #1

Counterpoint: AI is junk Bad Thoughts May 2025 #2

I hope you are right. applegrove May 2025 #3

Depends on the version, some is very good... Not bet-your-life good, but way better than many people lostnfound May 2025 #7

Yes. Good points. And Anthropic's Claude is probably the best of AI's out there. ancianita May 2025 #11

AI doesn't unionize, take vacations, sleep, complain about the dirty foreigners stealing its jobs, etc. IronLionZion May 2025 #9

I have heard this "automation" is going to destroy almost all jobs b.s. forever. valleyrogue May 2025 #14

H-1B has already pretty much wiped out entry level jobs RandomNumbers May 2025 #4

I'm old enough to remember what the world was like before Tarzanrock May 2025 #5

If people aren't working, they aren't buying stuff.AI could kill capitalism. OAITW r.2.0 May 2025 #6

Yes, there's that a point also. The concentration may be 5% working and rich; 15% "essential", and 50% gig.work lostnfound May 2025 #17

Won't be long before... 2naSalit May 2025 #8

Weirdly like an anti-industrial revolution Red Mountain May 2025 #10

Butlerian Jihad, anyone? LudwigPastorius May 2025 #13

Artificial Intelligence doesn't have a union... Jack Valentino May 2025 #12

Technology and automation are coming for blue and white collar jobs Amishman May 2025 #15

That's the plan. thought crime May 2025 #16