The singularity isn't the problem, the problem is mass unemployment. Sure AI is a bit shit, but its significantly cheaper than hiring someone to make it better

The singularity isn't the problem, the problem is mass unemployment. Sure AI is a bit shit, but its significantly cheaper than hiring someone to make it better. So for a lot of things, that job or thing will be done by AI. Now, if we are lucky, there will be another industry of jobs that will support the 10-40% of people that are unemployed. However what optimists tend to omit timelines when saying "new jobs will come along". If we take the industrial heartlands of england, they have still not recovered an event that effectively finished in 1992. The hollowing out of the rust belt is another example (however I leave that to US experts to explain.) We as programmers are pretty fucked. However we're not going to notice until its too late. Like Mike from "the sun also rises" its going to happen "Gradually, then suddenly.”