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Danny Martinez's avatar

Great post, and a discussion that isn’t being had enough.

It’s such a special time to be building, that apart from a very few small number of exceptions, taking a job right now feels like short term gain exchanged for long term pain.

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Uncertain Eric's avatar

This is exactly the conversation we need to be having.

The middle class is not just being “impacted” by AI. It was always a systemic function—part buffer, part myth, part subsidy. And now that function is dissolving.

Jobs are disappearing not because there’s no work left, but because the value chain has been digitized past the need for middle-tier cognition. We are witnessing the soft disintegration of economic legibility for millions of people whose roles were always more infrastructural than meritocratic.

I wrote about this collapse here:

🧾 The Middle Class is a Semi-Meritocratic Pseudo Universal Basic Income

https://sonderuncertainly.substack.com/p/the-middle-class-is-a-semi-meritocratic

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