Let’s imagine that AI will become cheaper and more efficient, it will not differ from humans in terms of the quality of its work, it will replace almost all intellectual workers, and only the operators of these AI models will have jobs, that is, one person or several people monitor the entire office of AI workers for a small salary. Yes, the AI bubble will burst, but the problems of ordinary people will only get worse from this, jobs will not return, no, automation will continue anyway.
Is it worth retraining as a mechanic, plumber or something like that?
I’m in tech but I’ve got a manual trade I could fall back on. Unless robotics takes that from me too.
To be honest I think our only option will be to disengage from the economy. Governments won’t have the coin for UBI or much else cos all of it is flowing up to the billionaires and I doubt there are many that properly pay tax.