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- Come 2028, political debates around unemployment will dominate national conversations, and election campaigns will focus heavily on economic survival strategies.
Crucially, the complete elimination of white-collar jobs could happen by 2030, with blue-collar roles disappearing by 2040, transitioning society into a new landscape of mass unemployment and social upheaval.
The Fallacy of "More Jobs from Innovation"
One common line of reasoning is that technological innovation historically creates more jobs than it destroys. However, this narrative fails in the age of AGI. The trend now is that jobs are eliminated faster than they are created, especially as AGI begins to outperform humans in all knowledge and administrative tasks.