It’s a lesser concern compared to Doom, but I’m thinking about the scenario where programming (my job) or office work in general gets near-fully automated while we don’t have a singularity or total economic transformation for some decades (whether due to a pause or slowdown, economic or technical issues, or whatever else). Is there anything I can do to prepare for this scenario? My family has several years worth of savings, but not enough to live on indefinitely. Being middle aged it would be pretty hard to shift to the trades. I hope I don’t end up having to work at McDonald’s...
This might be overly optimistic, but it seems likely that a world where software engineering and/or office work is fully automated should cause a lot of economic growth which would hopefully make investments do much better than expected.
I feel like it is unlikely to happen, either white collar jobs will not be completely automated or it will boost the economy and there will be more wealth available to redistribute.
The risk there would be such an extreme concentration of wealth so that it only benefits to the few, but we can hope that it will be an issue for too many people so that it triggers political action (also in the case of a slowdown, it is less likely to be in a dictatorship-like situation).
It’s a lesser concern compared to Doom, but I’m thinking about the scenario where programming (my job) or office work in general gets near-fully automated while we don’t have a singularity or total economic transformation for some decades (whether due to a pause or slowdown, economic or technical issues, or whatever else). Is there anything I can do to prepare for this scenario? My family has several years worth of savings, but not enough to live on indefinitely. Being middle aged it would be pretty hard to shift to the trades. I hope I don’t end up having to work at McDonald’s...
This might be overly optimistic, but it seems likely that a world where software engineering and/or office work is fully automated should cause a lot of economic growth which would hopefully make investments do much better than expected.
I feel like it is unlikely to happen, either white collar jobs will not be completely automated or it will boost the economy and there will be more wealth available to redistribute.
The risk there would be such an extreme concentration of wealth so that it only benefits to the few, but we can hope that it will be an issue for too many people so that it triggers political action (also in the case of a slowdown, it is less likely to be in a dictatorship-like situation).