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In absolute terms AI is nibbling on a fairly small slice of the global pie of jobs - junior coders, lawyers, accountants, bankers. The average person earns an
by rich_sasha 4mo ago
In absolute terms AI is nibbling on a fairly small slice of the global pie of jobs - junior coders, lawyers, accountants, bankers.
The average person earns an average salary doing something very different to the stuff we on HN stress about.
- 5701652400 4mo agokey point, those 6 figures SWEs earn, they would spend to "local non SWE" economy. your local datacenter does not care about local chickens or eggs, or private tutor, or pretty much anything at all. not even energy, it is has its own nucleaer reactor nearby. it is one-way economy from now on. you are only a consumer, not a producer. there is virtually nothing you (nor average joe) can provide that "datacenter" needs.
- zardo 4mo agoIt doesn't have a nuclear reactor, it has two dozen natural gas turbines.
- emp17344 4mo agoThis is - quite literally - the fixed-pie fallacy, which has been thoroughly debunked by now. Read up on basic economics before commenting on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy