AI could widen the wealth gap and wipe out entry-level jobs, expert says
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-5485286/ai-jobs-economy-wealth-gap
AI could widen the wealth gap and wipe out entry-level jobs, expert says
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-5485286/ai-jobs-economy-wealth-gap
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Artificial Intelligence continues to grow, forcing companies to find a way to close the gap between innovation and preparation.
Companies have begun integrating AI into their day-to-day operations. Some employers are concerned that this will lead to a complete elimination of their roles within companies.
In a previous Morning Edition video interview, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg raised concerns that America is not prepared for the economic downsides of artificial intelligence
I mean, entry level jobs in tech are pretty much done at this point already, it jumps from “unpaid intern” to “underpaid mid-level/veteran”
So funny how I’ve seen a new crop of these articles the same day ChatGPT 5 flopped. Just a crazy coincidence.
Early career people are getting screwed over. It used to be that you don’t need to get everything down day-1, just do grunt work for a while when you grow your legs. Now there isn’t this ramp for them. You either come on fully formed or you are dead weight to the team. And school does a piss poor job helping people get ready for working.
It can only wipe out entry level jobs for so long. Eventually there won’t be any senior level people left to run the AI and companies will have to hire entry level again.
I still am not seeing the benefit from AI. In fact, every day, it just sounds more and more like AI is a bad thing for all of us.
2+2=4
If you wipe out human demand across vast industries and those people have no money.. um um.. they can’t afford basic life stuff.. You don’t need some model or algorithm to figure this out..
People with a maybe opinion of this have never paid bills, or just have some form of brain rot.. No money; no buy..
“Widen the wealth gap” the top 1% currently holding $54 TRILLION in wealth. But they need tax breaks. Wtf?
Isn’t that the whole point?
There was a whole big conversation the other day, I think in this sub, about the billionaire bunkers, and how the whole plan is to basically automate all workers that could do whatever the ultra rich need and want, hoard everything, hide in their bunkers, and wait for most people die of hunger or disease.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1mhk1gl/comment/n6wzdwg/
> The plan has always been to run this world just long enough that you get robot workers and automatic gun drones who can and will kill indiscriminately, then there is no use for 99% of the population. The sentiment “the rich will ruin themselves in their bunker” is a pipedream for the disaffected so the rich can build their nests, from which they will recolonize the world. You don’t need to last 80 years. You need to wait for 99% of the population to starve within 5 and emerge well armed, well fed, and parasite free.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1jr1iu2/the_point_of_ai_for_wealth_to_access_skill_and/
> “The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.”
>
> -Jeff Owski
I’m noticing that experts are really good at being twenty years behind everybody else. You know back in our parents days companies knew accepted just new hires would suck for a while, and were happy to full pay entire four year courses to get them up to speed.
AI is great way to speed run aka “french” revolution as heads will roll and people will look at billionaires wealth and be like “it is time to share and we mean you share and you have no way to say no”.
Generational collapse on the way. AI needs to speed up so that we can have longevity and AI waifus.
When AGI then ASI are achieved a whole new economic system will be thought of by said superintelligence. We’re thinking of our economy now today we have no idea what a superintelligence can come up with, our whole world will rapidly change including our economic system
This make me sad. AI should be replacing monotonous/tedious jobs not creative jobs that require performances. These are the fun jobs. Its being applied to the wrong workforce.
There are blue collar unions like the ILA and teamsters who are blocking technology from automating dangerous menial soulless should that should be automate, leading to tech bros to rob creatives blind.
Humanity is so fucked, humans are fighting for the right to do soul crushing labor while advocating for AI to replace the arts just so they can generate their big titty waifu.
No shot. Sherlock thats the first thing CEOs noted, delusional people think billionaires wont replace them for even 10 cents a month of profit
Every title is “AI might do this really terrible thing to ruin your life.”
Meanwhile, ChatGPT 5 can’t get state names right in a map. So what? We just trying to get a series C here?
That’s the point. It cements the control of the wealthy class while locking the poors out of social mobility. This is the end goal of every ruling class throught history.
Doesn’t any innovation made by megacorps with huge R&D budgets technically widen the wealth gap though?
As for entry level jobs, wouldn’t that eventually lead to deficit of above-entry level workers and a surge in pay for those jobs?
So we invented a new technology that makes rich people richer and poor people poorer, mild shock.