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re: Unemployment for new college graduates surpasses the national average, AI to blame

Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:59 pm to
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:59 pm to
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Don't argue with the boomers. They still think we live in the 70's and 80's.


Dude what the frick? One person supposedly not getting an ME job doesn't mean AI is taking all the entry level jobs college grads are supposed to be getting. Do you think it's more likely that ME grads can't get jobs because of AI or this guy is an outlier that for a variety of reasons didn't get a job? Most engineering grads have jobs lined up before graduation
Posted by 4x4tiger
Louisiana
Member since Feb 2006
5050 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:59 pm to
It's not AI. It's the overabundance of useless degrees given out
Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time
Member since Sep 2012
25415 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:01 pm to
AI = Actually Indian
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36209 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:07 pm to
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Until they build robots that can fix plumbing, wire houses or climb up in my attic to fix the AC those “blue” collar jobs will be around. I imagine it’ll take longer for those robots to come around.


That’s a hell of a lot easier to automate than human decision making

Like those are things robotics is explicitly good at
Posted by Artificial Ignorance
Member since Feb 2025
1424 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:07 pm to
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Majoring in nonsense has consequences


AI will soon out-STEM Stem degrees (and most others).

Posted by HeadCall
Member since Feb 2025
5715 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:11 pm to
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That’s a hell of a lot easier to automate than human decision making


CPAs will disappear long before plumbers do.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36209 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:17 pm to
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CPAs will disappear long before plumbers do.


Book keepers and receivables clerks? Possibly, maybe at least downsized in numbers.

CPA’s, absolutely not. Many CPA’s now have already moved into more of the technology space and are using the rudimentary AI we have available.

Receivables clerks and plumbers will likely actually he similar in that regard. Will plumbers still exist? Yes, but there could be a 75% reduction in headcount and really what they would be is logistics and customer service/maintenance on the robotics
Posted by BamaAlum02
Huntsville, AL
Member since Nov 2005
1097 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:21 pm to
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Until they build robots that can fix plumbing, wire houses or climb up in my attic to fix the AC those “blue” collar jobs will be around. I imagine it’ll take longer for those robots to come around.


They are already rolling out robots to do construction, utility line repair, and many other manual jobs. Have you seen an assembly line lately, it's all robotics.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36209 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:24 pm to
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They are already rolling out robots to do construction, utility line repair, and many other manual jobs. Have you seen an assembly line lately, it's all robotics.


All this shite is right in front of our faces and they want to deny it

In 5 years it’s totally realistic to have a driverless vehicle deliver materials for a robot to frame a house. In those same 5 years, I don’t see in any way it’s realistic that an attorney or CPA is replaced by AI
Posted by olemc999
At a blackjack table
Member since Oct 2010
15024 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:40 pm to
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Culinary


Posted by olemc999
At a blackjack table
Member since Oct 2010
15024 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:42 pm to
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Until they build robots that can fix plumbing, wire houses or climb up in my attic to fix the AC those “blue” collar jobs will be around. I imagine it’ll take longer for those robots to come around.



Posted by TigersHuskers
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2014
14410 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:04 pm to
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In 5 years it’s totally realistic to have a driverless vehicle deliver materials for a robot to frame a house. In those same 5 years, I don’t see in any way it’s realistic that an attorney or CPA is replaced by AI


Posted by TigersHuskers
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2014
14410 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:04 pm to
Being aCPA is so hard that AI cant replace it that Mingo has 31k posts on here.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36209 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:16 pm to
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Being aCPA is so hard that AI cant replace it that Mingo has 31k posts on here.


You’d have 31k posts too if they gave you access to your phone while you were unemployed and in rehab
Posted by TigersHuskers
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2014
14410 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:24 pm to
Sweet comeback bro.
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
Below I-10
Member since Jul 2019
3514 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:25 pm to
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I don't even know what I will tell my kids to study in the future

Evidently, "Learn to code" won't cut it anymore.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
19007 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:02 pm to
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Majoring in nonsense has consequences

It’s the arts that will be the most difficult to replace, those jobs rely on feelings and creativity, machines are a little deficient in those. I frankly hate the monotone AI narrators for videos that can’t even pronounce a person’s name correctly, and aren’t funny doing so, like Harry Carey when he called the Cubs games.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
6653 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 9:24 pm to
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It is complete and utter economic fallacy that technology causes unemployment. It causes temporary job displacement Every major tech breakthrough in modern history- the automobile, the computer, airplanes, machinery, etc- was met with concerns by luddites that it was going to make people unemployable.


While that was true in the past, the ones developing AI say this is different. These people aren’t luddites.
Posted by Koach K
Member since Nov 2016
4793 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:09 pm to
We finance stuff in America. We don’t engineer. I love the cognitive dissonance from the engineering crowd.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
70888 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:14 pm to
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We don’t engineer


Speak for yourself. I engineer the shite outta stuff.
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