[johndhi]

>LLMs and robotics look to be the first mainstream technological development in a long while which not only reduces the number of workers needed, but also doesn't have a commensurate increasing of the size of the economy in terms of increased wages through efficiency and profits being paid as wages

What is your evidence of this?

[WillAdams]

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-is-wiping-out-...

[johndhi]

This article (with limited data I'll note) only talks about the first part -- that it's eliminating jobs. It doesn't say that it isn't also creating jobs.

[WillAdams]

News story on jobs created by LLMs?

[hello_moto]

Look around you: middle class is shrinking all over the world despite hi-tech advancements.

Adjusting with inflation and everything else, are people better off today than in the 80s?

[johndhi]

LLMs have only been a big deal for 2 years. are you saying that all of this middle class shrinkage arrived because of that specifically? the original comment was saying this is an LLM-specific issue.

[mgraczyk]

Yes, pretty much no matter how you measure it