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I'm Worried It Might Get Bad
Starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon
A massive economic slowdown gets announced A new AI Employee product gets announced that clearly can replace most workers New layoff numbers get announced and it's hundreds of thousands of people New data shows basically nobody is hiring Enrollment in colleges plummets because there are no jobs to be had after you go into all that debt Inflation jumps massively from the tariffs and/or other causes Homelessness skyrockets because people can't pay their rent, but now it's whole families on the streets We start to see unrest and/or riots against "the rich" because there are no jobs, and people are being evicted Crime goes up significantly There is a loud demand for the government to outlaw AI replacement of workers We get pulled into some new military conflict, either with Russia, or Iran, or China The country continues to suffer financially because the world pulls away from the US and moves into the arms of China Thousands more businesses go under because nobody can afford to buy their products or services I just don't know what the country does if some significant percentage of our 100 million knowledge workers gets laid off because of AI, uncertainty about the future, or for whatever other combination of reasons. Everything's too expensive, and likely to get worse We already have massive layoffs for unknown reasons Billions are being spent on replacing our 100 million knowledge workers with AI We're already in something of a mental health crisis We're already primed to fight with each other because we no longer share a common reality
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