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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 | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fibers ◴[28 Aug 25 14:46 UTC] No.45052852[source]▶
The accounting note is not true in the traditional sense. The field in the US is just getting offshored to India/PH/Eastern Europe for better or for worse. There is even a big push to lower the educational requirements to attain licensure in the US (Big 4 partners want more bodies and are destroying the pipeline for US students). Audit quality will continue to suffer and public filers will issue bunk financials if they aren't properly attested to.
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raincole ◴[29 Aug 25 02:02 UTC] No.45059205[source]▶
It's amusing to see programmers in the US promoting remote work.

Do those people really believe they're the most intellectually superior to the rest of the world? If a job can be done purely remotely, what stops the employer from hiring someone who lives in a cheaper place?

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1. 0xbadcafebee ◴[29 Aug 25 15:46 UTC] No.45065602[source]▶
It's not intellectual superiority. They've already offshored all the other jobs they can. If they could offshore my job, they would. But it's very hard to find reliable talent anywhere, much less offshore. It is easier to find the talent here, and there's more of it. Then there's the complexity of hiring, the timezones, language barrier, and all the other small complications that add up.

Once you have world-class experts all over the developing world, my job might disappear. But you need experience to get there, which they aren't getting, because they aren't here. It's privilege 101: if you have it, you get more of it; if you don't have it, you don't get any of it. We're very privileged to be high-value domestic workers.

And by the way, remote work has been a thing here for decades, yet the calculation hasn't changed. Our remote jobs are still safe.