AI Is Not the Villain (or the Hero)

Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now.The common narrative is that AI is the villain, and it's taking away our amazing corporate jobs. And that this is a huge mistake, because 1) we love our corporate jobs, and 2) AI isn't even good enough to replace a bad worker, let alone a good one.Please allow me to to offer another perspective. A completely different frame, in the spirit of Deutschian "hard-to-vary" Explanation.This push to remove human jobs pre-dates AI by...basically forever.If founders/companies could do all the work themselves they would NEVER have hired a single employee. They don't hire them for fun, because they like people. Companies hire people because they absolutely MUST. Because there is no alternative. They hire when they can't do the work themselves, and there's no machine or automation that can do the work as good or better. It's a last resort, and not desirable.The exact moment that…