Is this a real concern?

I hear people saying this often: make your money now, because once the door is closed, there will be virtually zero social mobility. 

I don’t buy it — should I?

https://x.com/rohitdotmittal/status/1925014180513644986?s=46&t=u8pItK-nu0TdtOG8jcLETA

Globally, people believe their kids will be poorer than them https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/09/views-of-childrens-financial-future/

College alone hasn’t been enough for upward mobility since 1960 https://www.nber.org/papers/w33797

Over my adulthood, I’ve seen income inequality do nothing but get worse. 

Fixed labor costs are a massive part of a company’s bottom line. 

AI genuinely is more competent than many people 

……… 

Talk me out of this. I feel fucked already; like I spend a lot of time deeply thinking about how to reskill

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I inherently have a lot of internal motivation and AI has been an accelerant on that 

But it’s hard for me to not just give up 

I genuinely see no point other than personal satisfaction in most of what I do 

I don’t have the delusion of special-ness to think I will escape this 

I am sitting around waiting to be subsumed into the Bezos feudal empire (he’s the one I would choose)

I don't think a single person will "survive" this the way they assume they might. It's just a matter of how quickly you can adapt or give up when the time is right. that's the thing though, I don't believe most people have internal motivation.