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MIT study shows AI can already replace 11.7% of the workforce
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:52 am
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:52 am
quote:CNBC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, or as much as $1.2 trillion in wages across finance, health care and professional services.
The study was conducted using a labor simulation tool called the Iceberg Index, which was created by MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The index simulates how 151 million U.S. workers interact across the country and how they are affected by AI and corresponding policy.
The Iceberg Index, which was announced earlier this year, offers a forward-looking view of how AI may reshape the labor market, not just in coastal tech hubs but across every state in the country. For lawmakers preparing billion-dollar reskilling and training investments, the index offers a detailed map of where disruption is forming down to the zip code.
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Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:53 am to bigjoe1
Can someone please explain how saving 1.2T in wages helps the economy?
That’s 1.2T in dollars that aren’t in people’s pocket to spend or invest.
That’s 1.2T in dollars that aren’t in people’s pocket to spend or invest.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:56 am to Yaboylsu63
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That’s 1.2T in dollars that aren’t in people’s pocket to spend or invest.
Exactly. There has to be a balance.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:57 am to Yaboylsu63
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Can someone please explain how saving 1.2T in wages helps the economy?
I’ve been screaming this for years.
But the answer is it isn’t to benefit the economy, it’s to empower the WEF and globalists to get rid of the “useless eaters” (their words not mine) and attain complete power without being answerable to the serfs.
We as voters have no means currently to prevent it absent violence because we live in a performative rather than functional republic where the candidates are selected based on their controllability by the various power centers rather than any sort of public appeal.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:59 am to Yaboylsu63
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Can someone please explain how saving 1.2T in wages helps the economy?
Trickle down economics. Just keep giving money to these billionaires and black rock and it’ll get trickled down to the peasants after they buy their 17th house in the Hamptons. You can clean their gutters or wash their mega yacht until the robots come along.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:59 am to LordSaintly
My only estimation of how this works is if the new productivity reduces costs to the customer by some 2-3x factor to offset the money now not circulating in the economy.
In essence you remove 1.2T in wages but now products are 2-3x cheaper as a result.
If companies are just going to use this as a way to juice the shite out of profit margins then we are fricked.
In essence you remove 1.2T in wages but now products are 2-3x cheaper as a result.
If companies are just going to use this as a way to juice the shite out of profit margins then we are fricked.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:59 am to Yaboylsu63
quote:The companies saving that 1.2T ain't worrying about the economy. They are more concerned with their bottom line. If AI can reduce their labor costs, unemployment lines be damned!
Can someone please explain how saving 1.2T in wages helps the economy?
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:00 am to Yaboylsu63
I believe you're going to see an awful lot of new technologies and industry's created as well that will create jobs.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:01 am to tide06
The next generation will see a major population shrinkage, how the globalist get us there will be the really bad part of the equation. War, famine, disease, it is coming.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:07 am to bigjoe1
There are "principled conservatives" on this board that think an acceptable future is the government just providing living wages to people...so that they have the money to keep consuming China and AI slop
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:08 am to bigjoe1
The answer is, no it really can't replace these jobs. or rather, if it replaced a particular job it has to create another job to monitor what it's doing in the job it replaced, because AI is not really thinking. It's doing a sophisticated facsimile of thinking that pretty quickly breaks down when it hits something outside it's parameters. There used to be rooms full of people doing manual calculations for scientific and engineering stuff that could be and were 'replaced' by substantially fewer people with calculators, and then later by even fewer people with computers, etc etc.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:14 am to wickowick
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War, famine, disease, it is coming.
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The next generation will see a major population shrinkage
None of that is necessary. Birth rates have done it
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:19 am to bigjoe1
You could probably eliminate 20% of all jobs without any replacement. There are a lot of make-work jobs out there.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:23 am to bigjoe1
And by “MIT,” they mean “ChatGPT.”
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:32 am to narddogg81
The other piece that is never talked about is the investment required to configure AI to replace those jobs. Too many people, including BoTs and executives, have this warped idea that you just plug it in and turn it on, with zero development, QA or maintenance resources to support it. I’m exploring it for a single application I oversee and the cost it nearly $800,000 for a project team. And that is just one of 100 applications regularly used within my org.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:35 am to bigjoe1
So the rich get richer and the American people get poorer with an even more limited job market. Eliminating jobs is not MAGA at all. Anybody supporting this does not want what's best for this country.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:35 am to Yaboylsu63
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how saving 1.2T in wages
1/3 of that would have been income taxes we will be missing, plus money paid in to SS which will be broke once the baby boomers all start claiming.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:49 am to midnight orange
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You could probably eliminate 20% of all jobs without any replacement. There are a lot of make-work jobs out there
THIS
So many jobs are already charity.
The Government has been making federal jobs into social fairness since 1943.
And they have been forcing businesses to do the same since the 1960s.
This post was edited on 11/26/25 at 10:50 am
Posted on 11/26/25 at 11:08 am to bigjoe1
Only makes sense we close the door to the US as fast as possible unless they are a benefit both economically and culturally.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 11:09 am to Yaboylsu63
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That’s 1.2T in dollars that aren’t in people’s pocket to spend or invest.
Trickle down economics, bro.
Also, when AI advanced enough, they’ll just program 15k drones to kill those people. Who needs them?
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