The idea that mid and late career tech, creative, medical, etc. professional will be able to easily "reskill," or that there will be good jobs for them if they manage to, is magical thinking.
> What's wrong with letting the market speak? Since apparently the white collar class celebrates, while chastising and legislating away the jobs of the blue collar class, apparently it's different when the white collar jobs are at risk, and we must not let the market work? Are you ignoring the massive wave of hysteria, including this article, for the last several months? Straight from the 'white collar' class.
There's a lot going on here but concentrating on your core point: saying "let the market work" without being curious about what the actual human beings involved are actually going to do is nothing more than your thinking money is more important than human life and that people are only as important as their commercial potential. Why beat around the bush? To put it lightly, I disagree.
> If the AI is so powerful at whatever bullshit job the white collar worker has, and you want to make white collar workers the glorified elevator attendant, be my guest. But it certainly reveals a glaring hypocrisy, that jobs only matter when they're well-off people's jobs, but fuck the average joe when it comes to their skills and livelihood, they should just "re-skill!"
Once again, I'm not really sure where you get this idea that I'm being a hypocrite here considering that I've been very consistent for decades about it being pretty bullshit how our society treats obsoleted workers like used condoms and says "well that's the market!" If you want to go argue that point with someone else who actually has that opinion, feel free.
I can tell that we're not going to get anywhere because free market zealots have a philosophically different understanding of human worth than I do.