Let’s imagine that AI will become cheaper and more efficient, it will not differ from humans in terms of the quality of its work, it will replace almost all intellectual workers, and only the operators of these AI models will have jobs, that is, one person or several people monitor the entire office of AI workers for a small salary. Yes, the AI bubble will burst, but the problems of ordinary people will only get worse from this, jobs will not return, no, automation will continue anyway.
Is it worth retraining as a mechanic, plumber or something like that?
I work with my hands so I’ve already got that covered. However, most of my customer base does not (which is why they call me instead of doing it themselves) so it remains to be seen if they can still afford to hire me in the future. If not, then at least I’m heavily invested to the stock market so I too get to profit from the productivity boom.