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    As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can't be automated
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    As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can’t be automated


    As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can’t be automated

    https://fortune.com/2026/05/24/huntsville-alabama-tech-school-skilled-trades-ai-automation-toyota/

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    1. Spl00ky on

      Won’t be paying $40 an hour for long when everyone can do it because the labor supply for grows

    4. merRedditor on

      Next, they’ll be training children to work in the coal mines again, because it “can’t be automated”. I almost think that the cruelty is the point.

    5. MentalDisintegrat1on on

      When people are desperate they do whatever to survive this means crime is about to go up significantly from theft, prostitution and drugs being sold.

      We are fucked either way.

    6. TheJesterOfHyrule on

      “Art, Music, Video and anything creative is being done by AI so you will now be forced into the coal mines so we can use coal to power the data centers”

    7. HumbleManagement1888 on

      AI still hasn’t wiped out anything. Just more overhyped bullshit.

    8. RepresentativeOk2433 on

      What do they think cant be automated? They already have people in every industry wearing glasses to teach automatons how to replace them.

    10. anarcho-slut on

      >Building a workforce with knowledge on missiles and defense production has grown increasingly pressing in recent months. The U.S. must replenish stockpiles of critical weapons, including Tomahawks, Patriots, and other munitions that the U.S. and Israel deployed during the war on Iran. If not addressed, a shortage could leave the U.S. vulnerable.

      Nice! They’re training students in weapons manufacturing to continue genocides and war crimes! And they’ll be well paid! Gee, I love this dystopian hellscape we live in.

    12. Outrageous-Crazy-253 on

      They CAN BE AUTOMATED. Stop lying. Humanoids will automate these jobs within 10 years. They are going to make the same strides in progress as LLMs in harnesses but even faster; imagine a worker you pay 16k for that never takes a break, never makes a mistake and never can union or sue.

      I literally see the progress every single day. Perfect replicas of human hands, at every size, with 10x the dexterity.

    14. NotBannedAccount419 on

      No one in white collar (and probably blue collar for that matter) are losing their jobs. AI is a tool. No one lost their jobs when the power drill was invented

    16. Fr00stee on

      I really doubt AI is actually “wiping out” jobs as companies are doing a lot of AI washing right now to boost stock prices and blaming AI for layoffs when most of the time they aren’t related whatsoever

    17. Score-Emergency on

      $40 per hour ain’t a lot and I don’t think anyone can tell you with a straight face it can’t be automated.

      Plus when others rush into this role the hourly wage rate will decline due to high labor supply

    18. RandyOfTheRedwoods on

      I have a theory on this. We continue to ignore climate change, so soon we are going to need lots of people working on huge projects to mitigate it. We are going to have to build levees around entire states, new reservoirs because of no snow. AI will accelerate it.

      One way of exploiting labor ends as a new one begins.

    21. dirty_cuban on

      Basic supply and demand dictates that wages fall when more people can do the job. Wages are only high now because there is a shortage.

    22. gottatrusttheengr on

      No such thing as an unautomatable job in mass production. Just need the right manufacturing engineer to be motivated enough.

    24. Temporary-Cress7233 on

      My fiber job is safe. A good majority of the US population can’t work on base due to the background search.

      I feel bad for regular civilians who can’t get good government jobs

    25. the_millenial_falcon on

      I am very skeptical that AI is successfully replacing white collar jobs.

    26. No_Entertainer_3052 on

      I enjoy watching this sub see saw between ai is useless it doesnt even work to its gonna take over every single job available

    28. Seaguard5 on

      And those jobs will be taken faster than you can shake a stick at and the problem will persist.

      Because everything else is manufactured overseas from years and years of outsourcing that will take decades to get back if we start fighting hard for it now and don’t give up

    29. Minepup247 on

      Anyone working in a Toyota shop right now knows 40 an hour flat rate is master tech money. Not to mention this trade is in free fall because companies like Toyota don’t understand that pay is to low compared to every other trade. They’ve been trying to fill the tech shortage for years now and the gap just keeps getting bigger because they refuse to pay a skilled and certified technician their worth.