I'm starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon.
Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally.
It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want to try to write it all down to see how rational it looks on paper.
A list of things that are troubling me
In no real order, here are the various things I'm stressing about.
I know a ton of really talented people who have recently lost their jobs
I know this is just anecdata.
These are people who've been making over $100-200K in tech or tech-adjacent for over a decade. And they can't find work. I mean they can barely get interviews.
And when I say a ton, I mean multiple dozen that I either know or I'm one degree separated from. And again, these are not low-skill people. They're legit professionals that have never in their life had trouble finding or maintaining work.
Tons of business leaders are explicitly telling us that they're looking to replace human workers with AI
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