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4. H-1B has already pretty much wiped out entry level jobs

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2025, 08:22 PM

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in my field (in the US anyway). Easier to hire a contractor with a puffed up fake resume than actually develop talent. (Never mind that the contractor usually sux at the job ... but are actually just good enough, just often enough to keep this HR model going)

I am glad I can reasonably expect to be retired before AI comes stumbling and crashing in to un-employ 50% of the rest of us.

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

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

Counterpoint: AI is junk Bad Thoughts Wednesday #2

I hope you are right. applegrove Wednesday #3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Won't be long before... 2naSalit Wednesday #8

Weirdly like an anti-industrial revolution Red Mountain Wednesday #10

Butlerian Jihad, anyone? LudwigPastorius Thursday #13

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

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

That's the plan. thought crime Thursday #16