I read this NYT piece and it pushed on the part that makes me uneasy: we always talk about “jobs lost,” but not what the next stable thing is after the churn.
Creative destruction is normal, sure, but AI feels like it eats both the repetitive work and the “nice office job” middle layer at the same time. In architecture school I keep thinking the only stuff that stays is messy physical-world work: sites, permits, clients, repairs, care work, anything where the constraints are real and constantly changing. What do you think is the next economically viable lane that’s still human-sized, not just “own the robots”?
