Automation doesn't care about your PhD either, commentator notes
VraserX · x · 2026-10-12
The author argues that highly educated professionals who long looked down on less educated workers are now discovering that automation threatens their jobs too — "nobody was special after all" — as AI-driven automation spreads to white-collar and knowledge work.
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