> And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...? Because nobody in management tends to notice or care when white-collar workers get stripp

> And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...? Because nobody in management tends to notice or care when white-collar workers get stripped of most or even all their job responsibilities. There's a whole genre of Reddit post that goes something like "I only do a few real hours of work per week" or "I was hired but never told to do anything" or "my team was laid off but they forgot to fire me for five years, so I just came in and goofed off all day." (I think this is because many types of white-collar worker are secretly valued more for their knowledge and edge-case intelligence — i.e. their ability to solve emergency problems in a pinch, or randomly save the company a million dollars one day — than they are for consistent, productive output. For many such workers, "regular job duties" are just thing management uses to keep them busy so that they don't get bored and quit!) For a healthy company, "AI taking your job" actually means "AI taking all the stressful and boring parts of your job", leaving you to do just the fun parts. It's like the people who do data entry who secretly automate 99% of their work, leaving them to just "manage" a script — but someone else is stepping up to create the "script" for you to "manage."