[overgard]

I don't think this analogy holds. I'll give you an example of why.

One of my skills is graphics programming. A decade ago, a huge part of my job was writing special effect shaders for videogames -- kind of as a technical artist (although that wasn't my exact title). One of the things I saw coming was that shaders were being created by shader graphs, which allowed non-technical artists to do a lot of the same things. This was fine though! You know why? Because I could reskill into new things, and a lot of my old knowledge was still useful.

If these oligarchs get what they want, "the nerd reich" is I think we should start calling them (these people are insanely far right), there would be nothing to reskill into. It's not "buggy whips are gone so I should work on cars", it's "I guess I'm just living off disability checks now?" I don't know why anyone not directly affiliated with an AI company is ok with that! It's not "progress" to destroy the entire economy. I don't think they can ACCOMPLISH that, because frankly they're mostly incredibly stupid, but that's absolutely what they want.