Raw LLM Responses

I started in the 80s at the very beginning of offices getting automated. Want to know what things were like before computers? Watch a TV show that depicts the workplaces of the 1970s (and maybe early 80s) and compare it to today’s workplaces. Computers are the defining characteristic of how work changed. Secretaries don’t take dictation. Designers don’t manually paste up ads. Messengers no longer deliver letters that have to get there same day. Everything done by hand. More people needed then to do the same work we do today. Then there’s the salaries—one person could raise a family and buy a home on their salary, but you get nothing with both people working today. AI is going to do far worse if its workplace potential is realized. EDIT: And check out photos of any large company’s mailroom. Used to be staffed with scores of people for every major office but all those jobs have gone away. Those were low-skill jobs AND an opportunity to “work your way up from the mailroom” that’s gone away but was the path to CEO for about 50 current Chief Executives.