When AI destroys millions of jobs will workers be pressured to accept reduced wages

[applegrove]

to keep their jobs and their job related healthcare? Is this why the Republicans nixed Trump's attempt to shore up the ACA? More leverage against workers. And it will be called efficiency.

After teasing a plan by Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, the White House has delayed the announcement under pressure from Republicans.

If Trump doesn’t sign legislation before Dec. 15, millions will be forced to pay more for health insurance, or forgo it altogether.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-11-24T21:26:46.365Z

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The medical system will be bankrupt by spring.

Layoffs, idle resources, hospitals unable to meet debt obligations. The whole medical system has bills to pay - rent, loans on technology, energy, salaries ... Wonder if the GOP plan is to cut medical costs by making the system feel the financial pain. With excess capacity, prices will fall. If anyone has the cash to bargain or barter.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Trump will have the blood of millions more on his hands...

For deep down, he KNOWS he is going to hell. He will make sure we all go with him.

[OC375]

3. My Gen X Friends & I Joke...

We say that we'll never be able to retire, based on lifetime earnings opportunities and advantages missed. We'll just work forever...

The sad truth is, at age 55 today, I'll be lucky to stay employed to 62 in my field (IT) or anything similar to my skillset at a commensurate wage. We'' most likely be retiring early, and not by choice per se.

We Gen X'ers need to be thinking about "retirement" differently than Boomers. It will be more like silent generation retirement... a working while retired, living small, not taking vacations every year, one car, not 2 or 3, etc... No designer drug for our mild to moderate plaque psoriasis - we won't be able to afford it, even with help from our friends at Abbvie!

One thing I don't plan to do... share my hard-earned career expertise with the world for cheap wages. I'll greet at Walmart or sell gas and cigarettes to people before someone gets 30 years experience at fire sale prices. I'll donate it to chairity, sure, but No Sir will it be sold for a song.

As far as healthcare... were I really sick, I'd rather suck on a bottle of nitrogen than give Anthem all my meager stash and leave my wife destitue and alone as a senior. They won't get that either. Then again, I'm sure A.I. will have found a cheap, easily distributable cure for cancer and everything else by then, so maybe healthcare isn't a big deal? LOL