The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.

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    1 year ago

    Not quite. It’s more that a job that once had 5-10 people and perhaps an “expert” supervisor will just be whittled down to the expert. Similarly, factories used to employ hundreds and a handful of supervisors to produce a widget. Now, they can employ a couple of supervisors and a handful of robot technicians to produce more widgets.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is, where do those experts come from? Expertise is earned through experience, and if all the entry-level jobs go away then eventually you’ll run out of experts.

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        Education. If education was free this wouldn’t be a problem, you could take a few more years at university to gain that experience instead of working in a junior role.

        This is the problem with capitalism, if you take too much without giving back, eventually there’s nothing left to take.

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            1 year ago

            You definitely don’t get experts from unemployed people, or from people working to the bone doing menial labor for minimum wage.

            Education is a broad term, that could include apprenticeships where you do get real work experience. And education would have to change a lot in all areas. The point is, the government can support people to gain that experience, the problem is that right now it isn’t. It’s common to exit just a bachelors degree with crippling amounts of debt.

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              1 year ago

              And it’s viewed more positively in the society to have a bullshit Bs or Ms than a (usefull) trade degree

              • biddy@feddit.nl
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                I wasn’t commenting on what type of education is better or worse than another. The point is that we need to support people through education.