>>1836016
if only it was that simple

This last year has been a special hell for me trying to apply, but it's not unusual for me, it's a special hell which repeats like sisyphus
I've managed to make more money year over year, mostly by changing careers
I used to be a manager at a brick and mortar store, until the mall it was in closed, like all stores in my area because of amazon
then I became a cab drivier, made pretty good money until I started running into 2 cabs, an uber, and a lyft all called at the same time by one guy trying to see who was fastest, cab drivers started quitting as income dropped but that made income drop more: if there are less drivers then you have to drive farther to get to each customer, takes longer, less rides, more likely to cancel. and soon less people were calling cabs and I couldn't make ends meet again
Then I became a bartender, this was fantastic I worked 3 days a week, and knew that no one would ever be able to create an app replacement for a bar, after 3 years I was making more than I ever had before, then I started hearing about some kind of chinese pneumonia or flu on the news in the background like some kind of fucking beginning of a horror movie, and people started posting those memes about how 1720, 1820 and 1920 all had plagues, and BAM I finally had 2020 vision and no more job ANYWHERE
so I took my degree, found a shit job in tech that paid less than I got as a bartender but at least I had job security, how could anything replace a programmer? I'm fully remote so who gives a shit about pandemics?
suddenly I started seeing generative AI shit everywhere and I knew
I just knew
I felt like cassandra, I told everyone, no one believed me because they hadn't been there before "it's just a tool to help us work better, don't be a luddite."
they said this without a hint of irony, the luddites started because weavers bosses said mechanical looms would just make their job easier, then promptly fired most of them once it was working.
now I sit here, vindicated by angry
why