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I don't know what your salary is but mine isn't going to be replaced by demoing a bathroom and I have a mortgage and a standard of living I was hoping to be able to afford at least until my kids are out of the house.

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Unless you're making a ridiculous amount of money, you can definitely match a developer salary remodeling homes. So long as you're the actual business owner. This was just an example, of course.

But being the actual business owner is also not "demolishing a bathroom and installing tile." While AI won't be able to physically demo a bathroom, it's conceivable that it will eventually be able to run a business better than a human entrepreneur.

The only jobs that seem to be safe (for the medium term) are jobs that require some physical manipulation of the world. Like, the actual, hands-on physical work that tradespeople do. Although they'll eventually fall to AI-powered robots.

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