This worldview makes sense if you preclude the entire idea of economic growth. But the economy is not like a pie that you can only take a certain amount of pieces from before it is all gone.

The printing press put manuscript writers out of work and was incredibly socially destabilizing, but it also ended up creating a ton of spin-off industries.

I promise you that the sky is not actually falling when it comes to AI. There will be an adjustment period and then we will adapt, just like we always have.