White-collar is a slow computer

from Diary 2023-03-30

• white-collar is a slow computer Talk about AI replacing mainly white collar and not blue collar.
• Because white-collar workers were trained and turned into computers at a time when there were no computers.

Japanese idiom “one’s forte”

A surplus is created for white-collar workers who do not have a job in hand.

• I guess I’ll just have to move to a blue collar job.
• The argument is that even if they change jobs, they will be treated badly because they are “inexperienced, low-skilled newcomers”.

Some “blue-collar contempt white-collar” workers will not lose their jobs, but some will suffer because they cannot accept the reality that they have to “quit white-collar work and start over as unskilled blue-collar workers.

• I deserve it because the poison of “condescension” only comes back to haunt me.

When we say “AI will take your job.” we are unconsciously excluding blue collar workers from the concept of what the word “job” refers to.

• Implicitly assuming that “it’s not my job to do it.”
  • This is condescension.
• You are narrowing your own possibilities.

The term “white collar” here is also low resolution because it was coined a long time ago.

• In the future, we need to think in more detail and with higher resolution.
• There are white-collar workers who will be replaced by AI and those who will not.
• Drucker’s knowledge worker concept needs to be revisited and fleshed out further
  • Simply put, white-collar workers who are not knowledge workers are easier to replace with AI.

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