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>>dredmo+(OP)
I'm still organising my thoughts on the subject so please feel free to push back.

This ongoing discussion feels classist. I've never seen such strong emotions about AI (and automation) taking blue-collar jobs, some shrugs at most. It's considered an unavoidable given, even though it has been happening for decades. The only difference now is that AI is threatening middle-upper class jobs, which nobody saw coming.

I do not see the difference between both. Can somebody that does explain to me why now is "critical" and not so much before?

>>hector+vg1
It probably has to do with the desirability of the replaced jobs. There's definitely an element of classism, but also people /really/ want to be artists and make a living doing that specific thing. There's the "starving artist" who will take little pay just as long as they can do art, but I don't think we have a similar idea for lots of blue collar work. How much do factory workers have passion for their work, vs it being the best paying option for them? Not to say there aren't any, but there's for sure a desirability difference.

Also I'm not sure most artist jobs are middle-upper class.