30 years ago was the middle of the .com boom and white collar jobs had been around for a century already. White collar employment started with the industrial revolution and really took off during the post-WWII boom.
Cushy white collar desk jobs were not around in the mid 90s?
Nope, Most American workers were just auto plant workers and soybean farmers until the internet was invented in 1991.
Figure has been doing a 75 hour live stream of it actually replacing a real job and it has that AI magic where it has gestures and movements that seem emergent. They’re coming for anything manual in less than 2 years.