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by taylodl 437 days ago
White-collar jobs will still exist in 10 years, and they will continue to exist in 50, 100, and even 500 years. AI is an immensely powerful tool that will boost our productivity more than the industrial and PC revolutions did. However, people and white-collar jobs will persist. The nature of work will evolve but imagine someone in 1925 trying to predict or understand the white-collar jobs we do today - they wouldn't be able to do it! People from 1975 might conceptualize our work, but they wouldn't grasp the scale or the technology stack. Just because we can't conceive how white-collar jobs will evolve doesn't mean they won't or that they won't continue to exist.