alt Hacker NewsNo, most white collar work is ultimately keeping groups of humans in alignment, working on the same thing without stepping all over each other, and working on something that generates value and isn't a total waste of time/money.
The PPTs and emails are just means to an end. But at least you're able to sound all cool and edgy on the internet.
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and you are able to sound like someone passive agressive who tried to undermine others takes while sharing takes from a highscool teacher trying to convince students that their future will be bright. even ur answer could have been automated years ago.
many jobs do not generate any value at all. your vision of the corporate life looks like one of someone who has never seen what some of the people do in corporations. most of people just spend days producing 0 value or even negative one. in public sector that "most" is likely 80%. why do you need a human to take in your passport renewal demand? why do you need a HR worker to give you the details of a policy? not even saying that most of the people wont even provide you a specific answer to your own case and struggle intellectually to tie it to your specific case and most of the time answer something wrong. happened to me plenty of times in immigration offices in the US or Europe for instance.
in consultancy like the big three a big chunk of the work is useless and about delegating accountability to those big three. they will continue doing that but soon they wont need much humans to produce those reports. AI are already better and it and most of workers there just prompt without even checking sources.
those jobs will be gone. for some of those they were already sent to call centers in india now it will be sent to an LLM.
Yes, someone has to make decisions, and that takes a lot of work too. AI can't do it for us because we the humans must make the decisions.