If it getting things wrong, then don't use it for those things. If you can't find things that it gets right, then it's not useful to you. That doesn't mean those cases don't exist.
If I do all my work in 10 hours, I've earned $1500. If I do it all in 8 hours, then spend 2 hours on another project, I've earned $1500.
I can't bill the hours "saved" by ChatGPT.
Now, if it saves me non-billing time, then it matters. If I used to spend 2 hours doing a task that ChatGPT lets me finish in 15 minutes, now I can use the rest of that time to bill. And that only matters if I actually bill my hours. If I'm salaried or hourly, ChatGPT is only a cost.
And that's how the time/money calculation is done. The idea is that you should be doing the task that maximizes your dollar per hour output. I should pay a plumber, because doing my own plumbing would take too much of my time and would therefore cost more than a plumber in the end. So I should buy/use ChatGPT only if not using it would prevent me from maximizing my dollar per hour. At a salaried job, every hour is the same in terms of dollars.
I wouldn't be surprised if AI was also eating consultants from the demand side as well, enabling would-be employers to do a higher % of tasks themselves that they would have previously needed to hire for.
That's what they are billed at, what they take home from that is probably much lower. At my org we bill folks out for ~$150/hr and their take home is ~$80/hr
I didn’t just set that, I need to set that to best serve.
This is in a mid-COL city in the US, not a coastal tier 1 city with prime software talent that could charge even more.
On the other hand there's the economic argument: the supply of people who can stock shelves is greater than the supply of people who can "create value" at a tech company, so the latter deserve more pay.
Depending on how you look at the world, high salaries can seem insane.
Those jobs you referenced do not have the same requirements nor the same wages…seems like your just clumping all of those together as “lower class” so you can be champion of the downtrodden