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		hello_moto 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robot... Look around you: middle class is shrinking all over the world despite hi-tech advancements. Adjusting with inflation and everything else, are people better off today than in the 80s?

johndhi 6 months ago | [–]

LLMs have only been a big deal for 2 years. are you saying that all of this middle class shrinkage arrived because of that specifically? the original comment was saying this is an LLM-specific issue.

mgraczyk 6 months ago | [–]

Yes, pretty much no matter how you measure it

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