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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

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440 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.623s | source
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muldvarp ◴[28 Aug 25 14:37 UTC] No.45052736[source]▶
Brutal that software engineering went from one of the least automatable jobs to a job that is universally agreed to be "most exposed to automation".

Was good while it lasted though.

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AndrewKemendo ◴[28 Aug 25 14:44 UTC] No.45052830[source]▶
Too bad engineers were “too important” to unionize because their/our labor is “too special .”

I think you could find 10,000 quotes from HN alone why SDEs were immune to labor market struggles that would need a union

Oh well, good luck everyone.

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tick_tock_tick ◴[28 Aug 25 22:20 UTC] No.45057699[source]▶
So what your argument is we're so special that we deserve to hold back human progress to have a privileged life? If it's not that what would you want a union to do in this situation?
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lotsoweiners ◴[29 Aug 25 01:40 UTC] No.45059071[source]▶
I’d prefer that my family are financially stable over “human progress”. One benefits me and the other benefits tech companies. Easy choice.
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1. aianus ◴[29 Aug 25 02:11 UTC] No.45059265[source]▶
If our ancestors had thought like that we'd all be very busy and "stable" doing subsistence farming like we were doing 10,000 years ago.

Better our children never have to work because the robots do everything and they inherited some ownership of the robots.

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2. redman25 ◴[29 Aug 25 02:23 UTC] No.45059369[source]▶
Do you really believe that all technological progress has bettered humanity? Where’s the four day work week we were promised? I thought automation was supposed to free us from labor.
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3. aianus ◴[29 Aug 25 03:58 UTC] No.45060014[source]▶
I don't think all progress has benefitted humanity but I do think we've never worked less while earning more than the present.