Trading the Office for the Front Lines: Young Workers' Quest for AI-Proof Careers
Young workers are pivoting to physical trades and emergency services to escape the threat of AI automation in office-based careers.
AI optimism is a class privilege - Josh Collinsworth blog
AI optimism is a privilege held by those who assume they will benefit from the technology while others pay the price for its systemic and personal harms.
Fed Moves to Cushion a Softening U.S. Job Market
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The U.S. jobs market is wobbling—decoupled from growth—prompting preemptive Fed rate cuts amid fears of a K-shaped economy.
Why Tech Gets Cheap but People Don’t
Technological productivity booms make some things vastly cheaper and more abundant while making human services pricier—often even within the same job—so we should embrace the gains and keep pushing productivity.
What 180M Job Postings Reveal About AI’s Real Impact on Jobs in 2025
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AI is selectively reshaping the job market—hurting execution-heavy creative roles while boosting AI engineering and leaving strategy-, complexity-, and empathy-driven roles relatively resilient.
AI as Class War: From Productivity Hype to Wage Suppression
Treat AI not as a productivity boom but as a class project to cheapen, control, and degrade work—and organize collectively to counter it.
Generative AI Shrinks Junior Hiring While Senior Roles Grow
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Generative AI adoption skews labor demand toward seniors and away from juniors, chiefly by slowing junior hiring from 2023 onward.