cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/13325

Uhhh I guess I’ve seen a lot of people concerned about AI destroying jobs recently but I remember some years back… we were kind of rooting for AI to destroy some jobs?

The doctors, lawyers, and other such professions have had legally held monopolies on their professions, creating artificial barriers to competition… I was very much looking forward to their “professions” being leveled for having defended such destructive compulsory environments, from schools to workplaces.

Much to silence the critics that say, “would you really want your doctor to have a degree from ‘youtube university’?” (answer: yes, in some cases, indeed) I can now look forward to AI replacing such doctors, with the normies not complaining about it.

Of course, the various “professionals” agreeing to voluntarily allow competition to their professions (to allow for schools to open in competition and to not require licenses to practice certain professions) would be an acceptable alternative. But since these “professionals” refuse to give up their (stolen?) privileges, I guess I (we?) were rooting for AI to destroy their (taken?) privileges in this way.

Anyone else still have this attitude? (I suppose some of the other disrupted “unregulated” or less regulated industries are more collateral damage in this “attack”)