Ok sure, but that's an awfully generous generalization of preppers you've got there.

This is a sneaky good answer.

That disparity signals to me a dying industry. 🤷‍♂️

No idea what you mean but happy to answer if you'd like to elaborate

What a weird point to contend. Academia is dying, categorically. English adjunct professors make about $2,000 a class. That's it. There's an overabundance of capable PhD holders and nowhere for them to go. All this without even baking AI's coming impact into the equation.

And the newspaper that I wrote for no longer exists. Most are owned by conglomerates now that are squeezing the last drop out of them.

Edit: grammar

Can't say that sort of powerlessness will sit well with me for however long it takes. I would rather be under the impression I'm at the very least making progress toward some goal in the interim.

Edit: why the downvotes? Lmao I'm talking about my personal experience here

I explicitly went out of my way to distance myself from preppers.

I think you're answering a different question altogether. I'm not asking what I should do in utopia. I would write books and hang out with my kids. I'm thinking more or less of the interim period, though. Getting through what will most definitely be a period of great discomfort.

This is fantastic

This is a very helpful answer. Thank you. :)

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This assumes that robotics doesn't catch up fast when AGI is at the helm. Those jobs will be largely automated too.