[DeusExMachina]

> Natural selection will take care of them in due course.

While you are seemingly not at the moment, some day you might be at the receiving end of that "natural selection" in ways that seriously impact your remainint time on the planet.

In that case you might reconsider your stance, and especially question how natural is the selection of a few powerful rich people depriving others of their way to earn a living and their way to draw meaning from their lives.

The AI revolution keeps getting compared to the industrial revolution, but people keep forgetting the consequences of that one.

[bborud]

I'm not terribly worried. The reason I am not worried is that software isn't my only marketable skillset. That is deliberate. Even though I see myself as primarily a software engineer, in the past decade I've worked in areas that tend to be viewed as wildly different strata and domains.

And if the apocalypse comes, I'm actually not that bad at a handful of skilled blue collar jobs.

The people who should be worried are the ones with narrow skill-sets and no capacity for dealing with rapid change. Especially if those skills are shallow too.

But I wasn't talking about people. I was talking about companies. And the reason I'm not worried about companies going under is that they have gone all the time since the start of the industrial revolution. Yes, it happens faster and more violently today than before but neither the churn nor the reasons are all that new. They just need to be understood so you can deal with change rationally and without panicking.

It is a good idea to read up on historic innovation/disruption cycles and realize that they are nothing new. The only reason people think this is a new problem is that 50-100 years ago they used to take about as much time as your productive career. So people wouldn't need to understand how to deal with it. And every generation would be convinced that this is some unexpected and unique upheaval that only their generation has to deal with.

My stance is the only one that works well during disruption: you make sure you have more legs to stand on and you don't waste time fretting over things you can't change. If you find yourself out of options, you can only blame yourself.