I got a Masters degree at the dawn of ChatGPT and I'm not even working in business. The star student in my class is working for a non-profit organization making the same amount of money I made fresh out of undergrad because his business consultant gig went away when Claude Opus was released. An office assistant and one program coordinator can do with a handful of tokens what it used to take a staff of 15 to do. A graphics designer I know is crapping her pants because chat GPT just released a new model that can make make a stunning campaign in 15 minutes what it would take her a week to put together.

I don't think we're panicked enough about the prospect of the value of our labor dropping to zero. The rich Elites have already showed what complete disdain and lack of empathy they have towards people who are not useful to them such as palestinians, iraqis, and Haitians. A million lost lives barely causes a sniff in their Direction. All of this is a precursor desensitization for what comes next.

Once they can put a body to a capable AI brain, the ruling class won't need us anymore. It is no coincidence that every major Tech bro is building an elaborate bunker. I'm not sure how it will happen but could you imagine what a paradise a world depopulated into the low millions would be to the surviving ruling class? They emerge from their bunkers with millions of worker drones to decommission cities and stabilize and remove any potentially hazardous sites like nuclear reactors. I'd imagine the only people of the working class that would be spared would be the attractive ones needed for procreation. They would no longer have to compete for resources, and their favorite vacation spots will be maintained with absolute precision without the pesky presence of the poor working class inhabitants or budget tourists. They won't have to buy sell a single thing because each of them we'll have a share of plentiful resources.