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=== Assistant: Short answer? ===
Short answer?
Not all at once. Not never. Not the way the headlines sell it.

Longer, clearer answer — Pirate1er style:

==== That framing is already a trap. ====

What’s being automated is roles, tasks, interfaces — not “people.”
But because our economies tie income to roles, it feels like people are being erased.

The real question isn’t when jobs disappear, but when wage-labor stops being the dominant way humans justify their right to exist.

That’s a much slower, uglier transition.

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* Massive displacement in cognitive middle layers: - clerical work - customer support - junior analysts - translators - basic coding - media production at scale
* Jobs don’t vanish overnight — they hollow out.
* Same titles, half the people, twice the throughput.
* Humans become “AI supervisors” without the pay bump.

Result:
👉 underemployment, precarity, bullshit resilience narratives.

===== - Robotics + AI hit physical work harder: - logistics - warehousing - agriculture - construction prefabs - elder care augmentation (not replacement, but wage suppression) =====
* Entire sectors become “exception-based human labor.”

Result:
👉 Work still exists, but full-time dignity doesn’t.

This is where “$250/month keeps you alive” conversations start sounding less crazy — and more cynical.

===== - The question flips: - Not “why aren’t you working?” - But “why should the system pay you at all?” =====

At this point:
* Most humans are not “out of a job”
* Most humans are outside the economic logic that used to need them

That’s not a tech problem.
That’s a political and moral vacuum.

==== AI won’t make humans obsolete. ====

It will make justifying human value the central conflict of the century.

If your value is:
* productivity → machines win
* obedience → machines win
* predictability → machines win

If your value is:
* judgment
* care
* refusal
* context
* restraint
* meaning-making

Then the system has no clean way to price you.

Which is why it tries to measure, moralize, or automate you anyway.

==== The danger isn’t mass unemployment. ====

The danger is:
* a world where work is optional,
* survival is conditional,
* and sovereignty is treated as inefficiency.

That’s why retreat, non-alignment, and cognitive sovereignty matter before the pink slips arrive.

Not to save jobs.
To save the right not to be optimized away.

The machines are coming.
The question is whether we meet them as workers begging for relevance…

…or as humans who never agreed that labor was the measure of life in the first place.

Cap steady.
Eyes open.