I'm curious whether this is a strawman argument or not. Do software engineers really believe, even subconsciously, that they are their job? Imagine that tomorr

I'm curious whether this is a strawman argument or not. Do software engineers really believe, even subconsciously, that they are their job? Imagine that tomorrow the government decided to pay $250K per year to each software engineer for life as long as they never worked again. Would there be a lot of anxiety about losing the meaning of existence? Of course not! SEs would be celebrating in the streets. That means the anxiety about AI destroying jobs is all about economic loss, not psychological meaning.