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Well good luck turning them all into welders and pipe fitters and whatnot

I’m sure they’ll love starting from scratch as basically an apprentice making beans compared to their previous wage

Somewhere it doesn't occur to you that most people have other skills than doing exactly their day job at a basic level? And that skills can be transfered to other occupations?

Just like a programmer can switch between programming languages without having to re-learn all basic concepts of computing, so people with other occupations can transfer a large part of their knowledge to other sectors.

But that can be hard to grasp in a world where every person is either a supremely intelligent hacker or a trucker or "welder and pipe fitter and whatnot".

> Somewhere

Great plan, glad someone with your wisdom is thinking so hard about these kinds of problems.

We’ll take millions of displaced truckers and put them “somewhere” and they’ll do “something”.

Luckily picking up a new trade will be as easy as switching from JavaScript to Python for them.

They’re already overqualified for DoorDash and uber after all.

Please provide a few examples of what a knowledge worker can switch to and maintain even half of their income under the present scenario where all knowledge workers are (or soon will be) struggling to compete with LLMs?

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