Unfortunately, all jobs will be gone in like the next 5 seconds.
At least that’s what it feels like if you take loud people on social media a bit too seriously - like my article title.
You may even adopt the Anti AI ideology as your new identity, screaming “f*ck AI” so you can feel like you’re making a difference without actually changing your behavior, broadening your skill set, or adapting to the new world, because who would want to do that? Who would ever want to grow?
AI isn’t the threat you think it is.
The real threat is what it’s always been:
You are dependent on everyone but yourself for your survival and well-being. Technology of any form is always going to threaten that. Your employer and government have their own survival to look out for, and when something threatens it, they drop to a lower level of thinking and quickly attempt to reconcile the threat. It’s human nature. You can argue that they’re “supposed” to care about your well being, but if you blindly trust that they will follow through, you are bound to be very, very disappointed.
AI is too big to control by crying about it.
Posting how much you hate AI on social media isn’t going to stop jobs from being replaced (not that they will be replaced, just play along with me for a second), and it definitely isn’t going to stop the skills required to become successful from changing as technology does.
My hope with this letter is to give you both perspective and a potential solution (that has been around since the dawn of time).
I have 4 ideas to share with you on wage slavery, becoming high agency, and why all of these ideas don’t mean a thing unless you fundamentally change who you are.
At the end, I have a short practice, with 6 questions, which may open you up to a new way of life - even if it seems simple.
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## I – How to escape wage slavery
> Wage slavery is doing meaningless grind work you didn’t choose, for someone else, just to survive.
I am not anti-job.
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