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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
If you think that your job is going to be made obsolete you’re probably better off maximizing what you can make while you still have the job since you can’t really force an employer to create jobs, no?
I’m reasonably confident that their collective agreement likely already has some language in it that would protect them from being terminated if other jobs they can do exist at the time when their job is obsolete.
I really can’t get on board with UBI, too many long term problems with it. Also I think the estimates people are making regarding job elimination at the CRA as a result of AI are pretty high.
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To a point, sure. But “maximizing what you can make” doesn’t always mean maximizing salary. If they get a 20% raise and are out of a job in 5 years instead of 8 then they’ve significantly reduced their take home (for any long term employees, obviously). It really only benefits the transient workers or those already on their way out before cost/benefit balance dictates they get moved out anyway.
And whether it’s UBI or something different, there needs to be a solution, because “give people jobs just because” isn’t going to be one. AI could eliminate 90% of CRA jobs
today. And that is not an exaggeration. The estimates are based mostly on governments moving at a glacial pace in regards to change.