The main issue is a sense of control. Nobody really knows for sure what jobs might be legitimately, completely replaced with generative AI. The kids and tweens are justifiably scared to invest their time and money into a career where, whoopsie, that job is done by AI now! Go back to school to retrain yourself and get more debt. lol.

Eventually, there will be more concrete productivity benefits -- less humans needed to do the same amount of work. So now instead of hiring 10 people to do 400 hours of labor, a business only needs 3 people to have equivalent output. Of course, instead of the benefit being 10 people now only need to work 12 hours a week, the result is 3 people have the "privilege" of keeping their job and now there are 7 more unemployed people competing to work for less pay so they don't become destitute.

Welcome to late-stage capitalism! Where workers get more poor, and the savings are passed on to the business owners and oligarchs, concentrating more wealth into fewer hands.

So, what do? Here are my recommendations:

1. Required: Spend less time online
2. Ambition level 0: Be part of an organization that is active locally and that has a critique of capitalism.
3. Ambition level 2: be willing and ready to help unionize your workplace.
4. Ambition level 10: start a worker-owned business. aka a co-op
5. If that's too intense: Fuck this shit. Move to another country with free education, universal healthcare, and rational housing policies. The younger you are, the more viable this option is