Unfortunately a not insignificant portion of society views these things through a “fuck you, got mine” sort of lens. I might have to pay money for someone else to get healthcare (even though it would also benefit me)? Unacceptable!

Absolutely. I usually think of it as Stockholm Syndrome, but it’s more likely spite. Although, even if we all (even MAGA) cried out for universal single-payer health care, the insurance company lobbyists would probably kill it. Sometimes I hate it here.

Healthcare in general. Admin costs are sky high, insurance is trash, we pay more than anyone else for less

Not only cut, but many current recipients are going to be forced to work to keep receiving benefits. This is going to flood the job market with millions of more job hunters, driving down wages & benefits even more. Those that are working will be paying taxes for less benefits & safety net programs, and more to subsidize the businesses of the Epstein class offering increasingly crappier jobs with non-livable wages and no benefits like healthcare. We are circling the drain and this farce of an economy is imploding before our eyes.

Not less. Moved from Germay to the US. I pay more now but I definitely get more and better healthcare.

EMS as a third service model, county or city municipality, is ideal. Fire EMS should be full of firefighters who want to be paramedics, but unfortunately are at risk of becoming a department that is full of paramedics who want to be firefighters.

I agree overall, but EMS in NYC is run by FDNY (separately from fire, though), and they’re still neglected. They make better money than most private EMS providers, but still considerably less than fire despite the fact that the majority of call volume in NYC is medical in nature, and nowhere near enough to comfortably live in the city. City run EMS departments aren’t always solving the problem, unfortunately. Though I agree that the structure of the system should move in that direction nationwide. Fighting fires is totally different than running medical. Though often there just isn’t enough non-medical calls in many areas to justify career firefighters with no EMS certs while still maintaining necessary firefighting coverage.

My son is an EMT (currently in paramedic school). At 26, he was practically geriatric among EMTs. He made more money at his previous job at a sandwich shop & was offered no shift differential despite working the weekend overnight shifts. If you are unlucky to need emergency ambulance care - know that your life will likely be in the hands of an exhausted, underpaid 18 year old.

Assuming a fairly typical three platoon shift rotation which works out to 56 hours per week, with 40 of that being straight time and 16 being overtime. So $20/hour base is $66,560 per year and $30/hour base is $99,840 per year. Multiply that across three shifts and you’re at $499,200 in wages for one ambulance

Most countries would just let the person die lmao Lots of tough talks ahead, but if someone chooses to live out in the wilderness, why should we move heaven and earth to help them (for free?). Like if we invented a teleporter that cost a billion dollar a pop, are we really making that the new standard of emergency healthcare transport? There should simply be things like opt in/ outs. If you want that level of care and can/ want to pay for it, great. If you don't it's your choice. I get that death is ugly and no one wants to see some poor old man die over the course of a day because ambulances are too far away, but there has to be a middle ground between doing nothing and spending infinite money.

That's literally what is happening. I work in real estate and (unfortunately) often deal with people of significant wealth. They all love to brag about their "boutique" doctors they have now, where they don't have to wait or anything like that. Fuck the rest of us though, eh? Because they *still* vote against nationalized healthcare, even though they don't even use "normal" healthcare.

I mean, that's the cheat code nowadays to make a respectable amount as a primary care physician. The amount of schooling, sacrifice, debt, and time... are you really just going to let medicare decide to pay you a miserable amount compared to the admin? people do not realize the tradeoff... the opportunity cost of becoming a physician.. not just in money, but in time and life... it's burdensome. for the level of training you have and the amount of risk you have to assume... concierge is the way to make it worth it. unfortunately this is the fault of medicare and for profit hospitals/insurance.

We're already there in some areas I think. I got dumped by my PCP office of over a decade because they needed to reduce patient load, and I've been looking for a new PCP for over 6 months now. Had to scramble to find an online prescription provider just to get routine refills of the one medication I've been on for years.

The healthcare industry overall is absolutely collapsing, especially in Canada. Short on doctors, nurses, care aids, doctors have no time, improper diagnoses, waiting lists for months and years for surgeries and mental health services, and people dying in ER waiting rooms. It started before COVID too but had gotten much worse. Other frontline jobs are also collapsing, including CPS, care homes, social services in general. It’s actually frightening.

It's always been this way, and always will be this way. Teacher is one of those jobs that will always be around, since antiquity and post apocalypse. Things might change but teachers, doctors, and prostitutes will always be there, albeit often miserable.

Community Pharmacy. The reimbursements on prescriptions is horrible due to the PBMs . Pharmacies often lose money on prescriptions . See.. Rite Aid.

They are already having difficulty finding entry level positons in many locations, as are pharmacists.

The pharmacy I use is an independent pharmacy that’s only been in business 2-4 years. I don’t know how she does it, but it is such an asset to the community.

The death industry/funeral workers. Not many young people are getting into it, and the workforce is aging. A ton of directors are baby boomers, and they are beginning to need funeral services, themselves. They're a huge generation and are going to be very taxing on an industry already understaffed. My roommate is a funeral director, and they're currently already beating their covid numbers with baby boomer and fentanyl deaths surging. Wait times are increasing, families are getting mad, and it's only going to get worse.

We had a cremation when my grandfather passed, and the company picked up the body directly, did the cremation, and delivered the ashes. No coffin, no plot, and no rental of space at a funeral home. Just friends gathering together at home.

Nursing homes. You have a growing elderly population and less and less younger people to care for them as birth rates decline.

There is the obvious issue of corporate money sticking their already pie-covered fingers into the veterinary pie, but IMO there's an even bigger issue killing us. A lot of good people left the field during Covid, which (n top of the usual burnout rate from being emotionally traumatized daily for usually not enough dollars) shoved us down to a level of understaffed and unsupported that we can't seem to dig our way out of. It's hard to hire only the best when the field is mid at most. It doesn't help that the new-grad techs & vets who are filling all those spaces generally have no common sense, no work ethic, and no real connection to or love for animals beyond "awww, how cute". Apologies if anyone is one of the good young/new ones out there, but if you are, unfortunately most of your cohorts are either useless or don't have the compassion & instinct to care for the patient that they need for this industry. Too many of them are clocking in and clocking out and checking off boxes just to get paid. Combine that with older staff who are sometimes stuck in their "just get it done, don't waste time, don't be too soft" ways, and care in general is suffering. As someone who's spent a lot of years advocating for animal comfort and well-being to be part of the protocol, and then starting to see it finally change before all of this, it's disheartening to see this blank-faced surface-level-care taking over. This job isn't for everyone, it's fucking hard. If you can't or won't put your heart into it, please don't get into it.

I called my dentist for an appointment..They had AI doing appointments, I started to hang up.. but then was like..I’ll try it.. after about 10 minutes of questions I get an appointment. Next day I get a text saying my appointment couldn’t be scheduled..what?😒..text says someone will be calling me shortly…well after 2 days & no call. I go directly to my dentist office, luckily they are only 8 minute drive for me. I tell the front desk what happened..she wasn’t surprised..I get a appointment All this because they are using AI & it is not working properly, won’t ever use it again for scheduling

Scientific research in the US. The funding stream for science research has been slashed by the Trump administration. Technically the budgets are still intact, but the money isn't being distributed. Funding via NSF has essentially dropped to almost zero. NIH funding is down by around 30-40%. Things are starting to collapse, and it's likely that in 2-3 years time the US science infrastructure is just going to collapse under its own weight. There's going to be a lot of ripple effects, like hollowing out of medical schools. If you've got a kid who is smart and talented, encourage them to get a business degree and learn to commit financial crimes. Anything but science.

Have you tried ZocDoc? I used it to find a PCP, find the one doc in town on my insurance that could do hernia surgery, found a great dentist, and a urologist.

And I bet dentists made a lot of money installing wooden teeth back in yore

Thankfully we don’t have satellites. We are trying to grow our online catalog and the nursing program. Unfortunately we don’t have the infrastructure to support all these new students and many end up slipping through the cracks and transferring

>I can't answer why, but there is a national shortage of workers in Healthcare and EMT is a great step into nursing/medical/allied fields. Not enough pay for the work. That is why.

The healthcare industry overall is absolutely collapsing, especially in Canada. Short on doctors, nurses, care aids, doctors have no time, improper diagnoses, waiting lists for months and years for surgeries and mental health services, and people dying in ER waiting rooms. It started before COVID too but had gotten much worse. Other frontline jobs are also collapsing, including CPS, care homes, social services in general. It’s actually frightening.

Nursing homes. You have a growing elderly population and less and less younger people to care for them as birth rates decline.

From someone who doesn't work in education/administration/etc, it sounds so bass-ackwards to take money *away* from schools where the students are struggling.

My kids district uses workbooks and pencils, the chromebooks got tossed aside a few years ago because it was obvious they didn't work. They just go to a run of the mill public school.

The teaching profession is on the edge of a knife. I have been teaching 20 years in Michigan, where I earn well into six-figures doing so. However, even in Michigan, there are so many attempts to tear down teaching and expect wildly impossible results, teachers are frustrated. The reality is that there simply are not solutions to many of the problems the current generation faces. Best we can do is care for them and provide the highest quality education we know how to give. I find nowadays, though, I am even battling back against parents. I called home not too long ago about a girl who was verbally/relationally bullying other kids at school. Mom said, "Yeah, her Dad and I go on Tiktok and trash her ex-boyfriend all the time." They participate, even initiate, the bullying. She was only 12...

As someone who works as a middle school teacher that scene can get pretty grim. I work in a pretty good school with better than average admin. There are still a lot of days where it’s really hard. We pass kids who need to be held back, just out right have to. We can’t keep the amount that needs to be kept back. Kids can fight and swear at you and be absolutely shits and just get suspended for a week and come right back.

We need to remove all this stupid wasted money on the bureaucracy of the education dept and use that money to just hire or incentivize better teaching. We need to let teachers teach and give them more ability to control their classrooms and students. It is very frustrating as someone who never went into teaching mainly because of the system.

This is going to depend a lot on where you live - your district, if you work in public with a union versus private or charter. I know lots of teachers that are staying because of their tenure they are essentially guaranteed a pension, benefits, vacation time, a schedule that aligns with their child/children’s, and an extra level of job security if they work in a high needs field such as math, science, and especially special education (AI bots cannot replace the legal mandates of a sped teacher, much to a district’s dismay) I have lots of friends from college who went into tech because they thought that’d be how they’d make money, and many are scrambling to get government jobs now for the consistent paycheck, stability in employment, and benefits which should be a standard for everyone in the US but unfortunately are not. Teaching is a hard job with a huge learning curve but the people who cannot handle it learn that pretty quickly, and if you are able to find a school where you have supportive admin and tolerable coworkers, you’ll make it - also while understanding that because of the realities of education now, a school can be great today and a whole other environment in 5 years, so be willing to move on if you’re no longer happy where you’re at if you can’t do anything to fix it

I may be the last physical newspaper subscriber for the NY Times, and that's only because my 80-year-old dad is delivered the Sunday issue. He loves reading the entire thing, and it has kept him occupied while getting chemo treatment. It has also helped getting him the mostly right information over disinformation/AI slop he scrolls through on his phone, so it's like a fact checker. Additionally, I want to make sure I get a physical copy of when the Orange Tyrant croaks so I can frame it! I remember when certain physical copies sold out when Obama was inaugurated. They can be relics. I'm also a journo grad from a decade ago, and unfortunately I saw the writing on the wall right after I graduated when NOT ONE of my local newspapers hired me after college. I did freelance for a hyper local weekly, but it was not enough pay even my student loan. I had to switch up to a new career immediately.

Universities as we know them. Major public and top private schools are hurting, but a lot of regional school are outright failing. The major publics are often surviving in part due to major expansion of online programs. However, the value of these degrees is unclear (e.g. even if you take them seriously, your classmates using AI to get through dilute the signal of the degree). If these programs bomb out, think lots of places will be completely screwed. I expect to see more closures of regional schools in coming years, and reductions or eliminations of entire departments at the big schools.

Education, the cost and the lack of good teachers. It used to be that high school was a springboard into college. Not it a money pit!

Colleges could be facing a drastic change, given AI and the fact that kids are so tempted to not do actual work, and a lot of the jobs that colleges train kids for might be going away.

The ‘woke agenda in your public schools’ bullshit really has done a number on childhood education, but that is the point. That is precisely the goal. The American Right needs the coming generations to be as dumb as possible so they can remain in power, and unfortunately they are succeeding quite well.

Public schools, unfortunately. I say this as a mere 10-year veteran that just left to go work at a credit union (another non-profit). Being a public school teacher is a kind of religion where personal sacrifice is needed to stay in the job: drastically underpaid, schools underfunded and under political attack, lack of parenting, no consequences or accountability for students, fake grades, grade inflation--even A.P. classes. A class size of 40. It's a payramid scheme too when you look at administrators who get paid top dollar, with little classroom teaching experience, and essentially no direct duties--all outsourced to hourly campus monitods and "reciprocal justice" associates. Asking teachers to do more with less and less and always guilt-tripped and gas-lit to "remember your why" (the raitonale for becoming a teacher) is constantly exploited.

Education. Teachers are leaving in droves. New teachers who have only been teaching for 2 years or so are bailing. It’s too hard, the pay is shit, the politics are awful, and the kids are struggling with everything from simple math, basic literacy, and social skills.

Especially Early Childhood Education. Teachers are hardly paid enough to make work worth it which means early years teachers aren't paid even close to liveable wages. Where I am from more and more RECEs are being replaced by untrained, inexperienced workers since there are simply not enough trained educators willing to do the work for such little pay.We are beginning to leave our kids in the hands of people who do not know best practices, do not know child development theory, and do not have the hours put in with children! The RECEs who aren't turning over are struggling. As an RECE myself at least $200/month of my paycheques is invested back into my own classroom and its materials. I've been in the field over ten years and I still don't make over $25.00 an hour.

Exactly; I sort of self-sabotaged my finalist interview for a TT position at an aspiring R2... because I was offered a public school teaching position with a better salary, better location, better job security (no tenure review, which they said only about 35% of faculty earn), and about 1/2 the workload.

This is going to depend a lot on where you live - your district, if you work in public with a union versus private or charter. I know lots of teachers that are staying because of their tenure they are essentially guaranteed a pension, benefits, vacation time, a schedule that aligns with their child/children’s, and an extra level of job security if they work in a high needs field such as math, science, and especially special education (AI bots cannot replace the legal mandates of a sped teacher, much to a district’s dismay) I have lots of friends from college who went into tech because they thought that’d be how they’d make money, and many are scrambling to get government jobs now for the consistent paycheck, stability in employment, and benefits which should be a standard for everyone in the US but unfortunately are not. Teaching is a hard job with a huge learning curve but the people who cannot handle it learn that pretty quickly, and if you are able to find a school where you have supportive admin and tolerable coworkers, you’ll make it - also while understanding that because of the realities of education now, a school can be great today and a whole other environment in 5 years, so be willing to move on if you’re no longer happy where you’re at if you can’t do anything to fix it

IT programmers/developers. We just did a roll out of a new process at work. The lead on it asked for suggestions and feedback. There were some simple efficiencies I could see (I have a Mathematics and Comp Sci background) and I was a little taken aback when they told me that most of the code was AI generated. I think we may be in trouble here.

I mean the company I'm at has been around for 30 years, valued about $500B, not based in the US, and not-US-based is 83% of users currently, we're on every continent, with a small server in Antartica, our abandoning AI would be front page news, and it would also NOT "be disastrous for the entire GenAI industry." Stuff like Disney, honestly even Oracle itself, Microsoft, etc, would just rip the band-aid. This isn't the same kind of "bubble" as 1999, but it is quite an inflated thing of some kind, and '99 to 2001 had to happen for the next phase of the world defining changes of the internet, to come to fruition. Let's get on with it.

If technology tools could truly replace education and the role of an educator in a classroom, it would’ve had a larger upheaval with the internet boom of the 1990s-early 2000s. It fostered some ed technology but not an upheaval or a change in the structure of society around education. Also, ADA and other special education laws protecting students with IEPs, which are legal documents and protected by federal law. An AI program is not capable of delivering special education services to a child with a disability as mandated by their IEP.

My partner taught English for 30 years. He was really good and earned premium pay at a good independent school. He quit after the pandemic. I taught public school and made sh*t money. I quit teaching in 2017. MAGA parents destroyed the profession.

Independent schools in the UK (apart from a handful of elite ones like Eton)

call centers in Asia are getting wiped out by Ai

Same, I only ordered from them because I couldn't find what I needed elsewhere, but holy shit it was awful. They forgot to give me a large item and the conversation was just going in circles even though there was picture evidence it wasn't delivered. I'm pretty sure they do it on purpose though in hopes that you'll give up and not get your refund or whatever. I feel like every customer service conversation I have lately is like this.

True, I’ve launched my own AI call center service in the beginning of the year. The market is booming, I would never have thought getting clients. But the list is getting full. I’ve designed it solely with Claude code and codex, without even knowing any programming language…

Web development. Graphic design is right behind it.

They’re thirteen individual letters arranged on a tape. That’s thirteen individual parts to order, mold, and arrange. Fourteen if you have the little flag. Still price gouging though! But I will say that MOPAR price matching is pretty outlandish and they tend to run promotional pricing through CCC One estimating software. I’ve gotten the full flag nameplate for $35 before so ask your local body shop to do you a solid

IT consultancies. Why pay Accenture £1500 / day when Claude is more knowledgeable and will do it for £90 / month?

There's so much theory that goes into actual good design. People barely know what they want, how the hell are they gonna be able to prompt a chatbot to create a design that looks legit? Generative AI also doesn't create anything from scratch. It's an ouroboros that recycles imagery that's already out there. It won't replace graphic design as if it does, all branding will look nearly identical at some point. The whole "what if it does" argument doesn't work because we don't know when and if that will happen. Like what if the sun explodes tomorrow? Might sound harsh but if anything, designers should see what AI is producing and take that as a sign to "get gud". Generic Fiverr design ain't gonna get you far.

Graphic designer here. IMO the industry is definitely changing but I wouldn't say it's collapsing. The places that want generative AI to handle everything weren't gonna become clients in the first place, before AI they would've used Canva or Word for everything. AI generated graphics have an obvious look and from my personal experience and what I've seen from others, it's an easy way to drive potential customers away since a ton of people are getting sick of gen-AI. If a company is too cheap to invest in how they present themselves, what are their products/services gonna be like?

Yes and no. AI is a bubble for sure, but it is also not going anywhere, if openAI and claude start charging actual cost, people will simply start using hosted open source models, that while not as good, are not *bad* and are like a 10th of the cost.

Yes. AI has massive flaws and limitations - the hallucinations, the fundamental non-deterministic way it works. It's just not a rock solid, robust technology and it never will be. The compute required is very costly for what it does do - that could be reduced dramatically and working Chinese models already are known to be far more efficient than what OpenAI and Anthropic are offering up. But then, with vastly improved efficiency, why would they need all these data centers? They don't +want+ it to be efficient. It's all pretty nuts.

Consulting. The big 4.

Business Consulting, especially process Mapping and analytics. Because AI

Legal profession. Rapidly getting taken over by AI.

I think a lot of industries aren't "collapsing" overnight they're being slowly hollowed out. Traditional journalism, small retail, local restaurants, entry level white collar jobs, and even parts of software development are all under pressure from automation, AI, consolidation, and shrinking profit margins. The scary part is that these businesses can appear healthy from the outside while employees are dealing with layoffs, hiring freezes, burnout, and constant cost cutting.

> There's plenty of white collar jobs that will hire anyone with a bachelors degree even if it's completely unrelated, but the career trajectory is normally harshly limited by that. and a lot of those white-collar jobs are being shuttered with things like insurance call centers being all that's left in many areas. Getting a certificate in a healthcare related field personally due to this factor.

Telephone switchboard operators? Milkmen? Ice delivery men? To tell you the truth, I think everybody will be considered obsolete except the billionaires in charge when AI and robots take over.

Unfortunately. LLMs may be an improvement on older machine translation, but it in no way addresses all the shortcomings

Translation and interpretation services

> The skill of those translators to in real time translate often complicated and emotionally filled testimonies are really impressive That's interpretation which is a different skill and a different task. Translation is text. Interpretation is spoken. We aren't *yet* seeing AI replace interpreters like is happening in the translation world. I'm sure it will come, though. With similarly often-questionable results, no doubt.

It is not. Especially with industry specific terms and regional dialects. I have to translate packaging into several languages and my boss looooves using AI for everything so he's started providing me translations he got from an AI service. I show them to people who actually speak the language we're translation to and they'll be like "that's such a weird way to phrase that, no one would ever call it that"

I live near a city of ~100k people. Im sure the newspaper is usually accurate in it's reporting, unfortunately the only thing they ever report on is local sports.

Tbf, part of the problem with tons of local news is that it's neither good nor journalism. It's just PR and advertorials. 90% of it could be a community bulletin on the city website. ...unfortunately, most city websites also suck. ¯⁠\⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

the newspaper industry is hanging on by a thread, so many are going digital only and struggling to monetize it

Do you have a business that would benefit from an ad, because for some reason my first thought was just buying ads for the fun of it. "Food: It's something you should eat" "Try Harold's Grumpy Dungeon, located nowhere near you" "This page brought to you by the color purple, but newspapers are black and white, so just trust me"

You seem to think TV is supposed to be the standard bearer quality journalism. It is not and never was

Radio. I know a lot of people don’t think about it but there are still a decent amount of people that listen to it. I’m pretty sure a lot of people know that it’s going down hill, but I don’t think they understand how FAST it’s going down hill. I worked for 2 radio companies and 8 stations in total. IHeart Radio and Forever Media. I always dreamed about working in radio being able to meet artists, becoming a personality, an engineer, all of it. When I arrived it was so depressing to see what it really was. Unless you are in a BIG city, like Philly, New York, Cleveland, etc., you’re SOL. I’m in Pittsburgh, which isn’t a BIG city, but I feel like it’s pretty well populated. I worked for 7 years in radio. I have seen 100 artists walk through station doors. Most of those were pre covid. All of the personalities aren’t even at most stations anymore, everything is broadcast from a different location if it’s something big wigged, or it’s prerecorded. When I worked at Forever Media, there were 7 personalities. There is now only 1 left who’s about to retire, and they don’t plan on hiring anyone else. Audio Engineers are diminishing RAPIDLY. Traffic (or the ones who place commercials between songs called “spots”) is non existent. It’s all done AI now with only a few people adjusting where spots go. Fine tuning that still somehow does NOT work lol. I can’t tell you how many more pissed business clients I had since this was put in place. Finally, sales people are just gone practically. Yes, sales jobs will never go away but people will. The IHeart station I worked at had 2 floors worth of sales people. I’m talking 50 people, 4 managers, 1 General sales manager, regional counting on the size of the station, and your sales people. And the end of my tenure there were 2 people left. Both ready to retire. It’s sad to see that side of the music industry die. Again I know that everyone knows it’s in the decline, but I don’t think people really understand how bad it is.

In a functioning system the infotainment system would be just a screen to pass through data from a standardized slot to put or replace it with a system of your choice. Crazy idea right? No. It’s how fucking stereos worked. DIN, Double DIN. My infotainment setup is better on my 2005 civic than my parents 2013 accord because it wasn’t integrated as a core feature of the car and is just a radio replacement.

24 karat magic! The radio ruined that song by playing it 1000 times a day

The entertainment industry, especially television, the means to monetize aren't there anymore with streaming

Yes it is. I wholeheartedly support mass transportation. I hate being talked down to by a fool as much as anyone does. I totally agree with reallocating our budget for infrastructure AND healthcare AND affordable housing AND food AND public education. I hate that we waste so much money on defense and please don’t get me started on trump. However, it’s sickening when folks are discussing car parts and someone just has to say we don’t need cars. Read books people. Look up how long it took to build highways and railroads and dams and bridges. Look up how much land gets desecrated in the process? How many habitats are destroyed? You do realize workers die too and land and waters get contaminated because massive explosives are used, right? Research the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the building of NYC. Poor Irish, black people, and Native Americans were “forced by poverty” to work and die performing these jobs. Are these going to be the new jobs for Americans? Nothing is clean ever. I’ve lived across a river from a large city for 40+ yrs. They’ve been “planning” for the train to come here since the day I was born. Btw I’m a liberal democrat. I just know wishes and dreams are unfortunately different from the reality one gets.

Holy shit I vaguely remember hearing about this collapse but I never paid attention to it. A quick read and it looks like these guys were doing all kind of books cooking Enron style. For what you are saying way too many people is going to pay for some few greedy scumbags.

Traditional true crime media. Magazines, books, network documentaries all being replaced by independent YouTube channels doing deeper research than newsrooms with actual budgets. The difference is access and speed. A solo creator can publish a full documentary on a case the same week it breaks. A network takes 18 months to greenlight the same story. By then the audience has already moved on.

So the women gets mad at deletes the whole thread. That is someone who needs to read some books, take interviews from many people, and learn accountability. I have learned it and loved it, and she is telling me I made up “a person in my head”. Sorry you don’t like the truth. Piece of ahiit

A big slice of the advertising industry

Paying doesn't guarantee that it's going to be good. Eventually every media agency bends over to those in power, regardless of whether they're profitable or not.

Being in AI and Automation, call centers, processors, underwriters, Analysts, any customer-facing interaction, animators, marketing and advertising, web developers, developers, operators/operations, and middle management. Basically any repeatable process.

Someone already beat me to it, but I came here to say Auto Body. Parts are getting harder to get, sure. But the real issues are deeper than that. Insurance has a chokehold on the industry and they are paying less and less. Corporations like Caliber Collision are hyper fixated on keeping the insurance companies happy as they are in competition for their business. The problem is most technicians are paid flat rate which is another way of saying 100% of their income is commission. So when the company you work for is selling the labor for as cheap and little as possible, who is getting fucked? The technician. And because Caliber is such a massive corporation, they aren’t concerned about a tech leaving. They do not value their workers like a good mom and pop shop. “So go work for a mom and pop shop then”. Unfortunately corporations like Caliber are taking over the market. All of those hand shakes with insurance companies on the golf course are at the expense of the techs and are paying off for the guys at the top. They are buying out all of the independent shops. Due to taking up so much of the overall market, they are compressing wages and labor hours making it impossible for independent shops to compete. Why would insurance go to the ethical and quality independent shop that pays their technician fairly when the caliber down the street can do it cheaper and faster? It’s an industry that is eating itself alive.

Automotive bodywork is starting to struggle massively. It has been hurting for years, but it's only getting worse. New cars are getting more and more complicated, as well as more expensive. Manufacturers are cramming more and more tech, safety features are becoming more integrated into every panel on the vehicle. Any accident that damages more than one or two body panels could easily be a total loss. So instead of your insurance company sending your car to the body shop, they just total it. As for older cars, the cost of bodywork is outweighing the value of the car. People would rather sell or scrap the car and buy a new one for that money. Or again, insurance is just totaling them. Pretty much the only body shops that are still doing well are the ones that focus on restoration.

Dashcams are currently *booming*. With the growing idiocy level of drivers and huge increases in collision insurance scammers, a dashcam is becoming pretty much mandatory on *any* car nowadays.

Reddit is massive amounts of misinformation. Insurance covers in and out of network helicopters if they are needed. You can't be screwed (by in or out network stuff) by making a decision under duress or while unconscious. I have no idea why the guy you replied to said what he said. I am honestly convinced half of these people havent touched grass or are Russian troll farms.

I see this too. Various reasons, but mostly declining service. And once they get a reputation, it’s over. We get new place opened by regional groups that start off great, but then the startup folks move on and the new manager can’t run anything. It’s a shame, but they just can’t figure out that bad service will make people never come back. We also had a nice regional chain get bought by private equity. It lasted 3 years or so. Menus got worse, prices higher than the service decline. Then closed them all up overnight.

I am so fucking tired of private equity ruining everything.

Me too. It is always the same model: private equity appears and the business is enshittified.

Nothing was solved back then. Money was printed, band aid solution at best. Then the banks and hedge funds created "private equity" lenders to get around new banking laws and kept doing all the same shit and more... on a bigger scale. And every time it has all come close to collapsing more money has been printed, inflating the bubble. And it will burst. Eventually.

Absolutely. I usually think of it as Stockholm Syndrome, but it’s more likely spite. Although, even if we all (even MAGA) cried out for universal single-payer health care, the insurance company lobbyists would probably kill it. Sometimes I hate it here.

I mean, that's the cheat code nowadays to make a respectable amount as a primary care physician. The amount of schooling, sacrifice, debt, and time... are you really just going to let medicare decide to pay you a miserable amount compared to the admin? people do not realize the tradeoff... the opportunity cost of becoming a physician.. not just in money, but in time and life... it's burdensome. for the level of training you have and the amount of risk you have to assume... concierge is the way to make it worth it. unfortunately this is the fault of medicare and for profit hospitals/insurance.

Healthcare in general. Admin costs are sky high, insurance is trash, we pay more than anyone else for less

The US government already provides pretty good health insurance to government employees. I don't know why that couldn't be extended to everyone. Other than the lobbyists bribing congress.

Can you not ask your health insurance company to give you a reference to a PCP in network?

That's literally what is happening. I work in real estate and (unfortunately) often deal with people of significant wealth. They all love to brag about their "boutique" doctors they have now, where they don't have to wait or anything like that. Fuck the rest of us though, eh? Because they *still* vote against nationalized healthcare, even though they don't even use "normal" healthcare.

Yes it is. I wholeheartedly support mass transportation. I hate being talked down to by a fool as much as anyone does. I totally agree with reallocating our budget for infrastructure AND healthcare AND affordable housing AND food AND public education. I hate that we waste so much money on defense and please don’t get me started on trump. However, it’s sickening when folks are discussing car parts and someone just has to say we don’t need cars. Read books people. Look up how long it took to build highways and railroads and dams and bridges. Look up how much land gets desecrated in the process? How many habitats are destroyed? You do realize workers die too and land and waters get contaminated because massive explosives are used, right? Research the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the building of NYC. Poor Irish, black people, and Native Americans were “forced by poverty” to work and die performing these jobs. Are these going to be the new jobs for Americans? Nothing is clean ever. I’ve lived across a river from a large city for 40+ yrs. They’ve been “planning” for the train to come here since the day I was born. Btw I’m a liberal democrat. I just know wishes and dreams are unfortunately different from the reality one gets.

The housing industry. We are seeing sales at all time lows not seen in 30 years. We have lower sales now than we did in 1990, but there 80 million more people in the US today (260 vs 342). Rates that have over doubled in the last five years along with soaring housing prices have all contributed to this, as well as inflation and costs in general. No one can afford a home and anyone with a home refuses to sell for less than top dollar since they don’t want to lose their sweet sub 3% rate.

Honestly Private Equity Firms are the real Villains in most things now. Housing PEFs, Veterinary PEFs, hell most year round sports like Girls Soccer and Volleyball PEFs have their fingers in them. All jacking up the prices so they can rake in the money.

To me, leasing is like a long term rental. Owning only makes sense if the car has a net positive value after it's paid off. Even then, with depreciation, it'll never be worth what you paid for it. Real estate on the other hand tends to appreciate and value and can be turned into a money maker via rental. Big difference.

Reinsurance costs have actually dropped this year.

I'm no expert, but prob property insurance? Climate disasters, rebuilding costs and reinsurance prices are rising across many countries. Insurers are withdrawing from flood, wildfire and hurricane-prone regions. Most people won’t recognize the collapse until homes and businesses become uninsurable, which then makes them impossible to mortgage, sell or rebuild. The only hope in these regions is for the proliferation of government-run property insurance

Auto loan financing, BNPL, private credit generally

I may be the last physical newspaper subscriber for the NY Times, and that's only because my 80-year-old dad is delivered the Sunday issue. He loves reading the entire thing, and it has kept him occupied while getting chemo treatment. It has also helped getting him the mostly right information over disinformation/AI slop he scrolls through on his phone, so it's like a fact checker. Additionally, I want to make sure I get a physical copy of when the Orange Tyrant croaks so I can frame it! I remember when certain physical copies sold out when Obama was inaugurated. They can be relics. I'm also a journo grad from a decade ago, and unfortunately I saw the writing on the wall right after I graduated when NOT ONE of my local newspapers hired me after college. I did freelance for a hyper local weekly, but it was not enough pay even my student loan. I had to switch up to a new career immediately.

Automotive bodywork is starting to struggle massively. It has been hurting for years, but it's only getting worse. New cars are getting more and more complicated, as well as more expensive. Manufacturers are cramming more and more tech, safety features are becoming more integrated into every panel on the vehicle. Any accident that damages more than one or two body panels could easily be a total loss. So instead of your insurance company sending your car to the body shop, they just total it. As for older cars, the cost of bodywork is outweighing the value of the car. People would rather sell or scrap the car and buy a new one for that money. Or again, insurance is just totaling them. Pretty much the only body shops that are still doing well are the ones that focus on restoration.

Covid really accelerated the problem. The average new car is around $55k these days. 90% of families can't afford it and repossessions are climbing massively this past year. If you want to buy used, you're looking at $15k for ten year old corollas with 100k miles in my area in the rust belt. The average car on the road is now \~12 years old.

Automotive industry.

Yes it is. I wholeheartedly support mass transportation. I hate being talked down to by a fool as much as anyone does. I totally agree with reallocating our budget for infrastructure AND healthcare AND affordable housing AND food AND public education. I hate that we waste so much money on defense and please don’t get me started on trump. However, it’s sickening when folks are discussing car parts and someone just has to say we don’t need cars. Read books people. Look up how long it took to build highways and railroads and dams and bridges. Look up how much land gets desecrated in the process? How many habitats are destroyed? You do realize workers die too and land and waters get contaminated because massive explosives are used, right? Research the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the building of NYC. Poor Irish, black people, and Native Americans were “forced by poverty” to work and die performing these jobs. Are these going to be the new jobs for Americans? Nothing is clean ever. I’ve lived across a river from a large city for 40+ yrs. They’ve been “planning” for the train to come here since the day I was born. Btw I’m a liberal democrat. I just know wishes and dreams are unfortunately different from the reality one gets.

Someone already beat me to it, but I came here to say Auto Body. Parts are getting harder to get, sure. But the real issues are deeper than that. Insurance has a chokehold on the industry and they are paying less and less. Corporations like Caliber Collision are hyper fixated on keeping the insurance companies happy as they are in competition for their business. The problem is most technicians are paid flat rate which is another way of saying 100% of their income is commission. So when the company you work for is selling the labor for as cheap and little as possible, who is getting fucked? The technician. And because Caliber is such a massive corporation, they aren’t concerned about a tech leaving. They do not value their workers like a good mom and pop shop. “So go work for a mom and pop shop then”. Unfortunately corporations like Caliber are taking over the market. All of those hand shakes with insurance companies on the golf course are at the expense of the techs and are paying off for the guys at the top. They are buying out all of the independent shops. Due to taking up so much of the overall market, they are compressing wages and labor hours making it impossible for independent shops to compete. Why would insurance go to the ethical and quality independent shop that pays their technician fairly when the caliber down the street can do it cheaper and faster? It’s an industry that is eating itself alive.

Automotive bodywork is starting to struggle massively. It has been hurting for years, but it's only getting worse. New cars are getting more and more complicated, as well as more expensive. Manufacturers are cramming more and more tech, safety features are becoming more integrated into every panel on the vehicle. Any accident that damages more than one or two body panels could easily be a total loss. So instead of your insurance company sending your car to the body shop, they just total it. As for older cars, the cost of bodywork is outweighing the value of the car. People would rather sell or scrap the car and buy a new one for that money. Or again, insurance is just totaling them. Pretty much the only body shops that are still doing well are the ones that focus on restoration.

Why are they inserted chips in car parts and attempting to sell subscriptions on everything in a car? We're turning into a subscription-based society.

classic car selling and collecting. Once the baby boomers die off, nobody is going to care about a shitty, analogue, carburated porsche or ferrari from the 1960s.

The death industry/funeral workers. Not many young people are getting into it, and the workforce is aging. A ton of directors are baby boomers, and they are beginning to need funeral services, themselves. They're a huge generation and are going to be very taxing on an industry already understaffed. My roommate is a funeral director, and they're currently already beating their covid numbers with baby boomer and fentanyl deaths surging. Wait times are increasing, families are getting mad, and it's only going to get worse.

\>> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair That’s the problem with most of the electorate of Texas. Wind and Solar are in totality cheaper and cleaner than most other forms of energy, but the voters of Texas beat off to having a oil and gas pipe rammed up their ass, so you get folks thinking Billy Bob Thornton is the gospel in landman. Same with progressive policies and how 80% of Texans would benefit from them but billionaires tell them that they love the taste of billionaires’ cocks and $30k/year voters have strong opinions on not taxing the rich.

And with local food businesses only taking online orders from Uber or Doordash, no reason to have a website for a menu

Yes it is. I wholeheartedly support mass transportation. I hate being talked down to by a fool as much as anyone does. I totally agree with reallocating our budget for infrastructure AND healthcare AND affordable housing AND food AND public education. I hate that we waste so much money on defense and please don’t get me started on trump. However, it’s sickening when folks are discussing car parts and someone just has to say we don’t need cars. Read books people. Look up how long it took to build highways and railroads and dams and bridges. Look up how much land gets desecrated in the process? How many habitats are destroyed? You do realize workers die too and land and waters get contaminated because massive explosives are used, right? Research the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the building of NYC. Poor Irish, black people, and Native Americans were “forced by poverty” to work and die performing these jobs. Are these going to be the new jobs for Americans? Nothing is clean ever. I’ve lived across a river from a large city for 40+ yrs. They’ve been “planning” for the train to come here since the day I was born. Btw I’m a liberal democrat. I just know wishes and dreams are unfortunately different from the reality one gets.

at any given moment the US airline industry is on the verge of collapse. The US government has bailed them out at least twice in the last twenty years.

Normally, I'm all about CEO bashing but the airline industry operates on razor thin margins. It takes an astronomical amount of people and resources just to get you from point A to point B while only slightly uncomfortable, and all for $600 or whatever you paid. Could they pay the CEOs less? Absolutely. Will anyone take the job if they do? Who knows

US Air Traffic Control

>am typically on the road running calls 20-22 hours out of a 24 hour shift. But freight truck drivers are only allowed to drive 8 hours a day because more than that is dangerous due to fatigue. The medical industry has so many stupid things like this.

Long haul truckers. The industry isn't collapsing, but employment of human drivers is. I give it <10 years.

Trucking industry...

Be careful; almost no soba noodles are 100% buckwheat. They often add wheat flour to stabilize the dough. Restaurants are the same. For labelling purposes, I believe it's called "juwari soba" in the store if it's all buckwheat. But still check the label.

We were commenting yesterday that every time we drive by the local fast food joints by us they're completely dead. We have a Wendy's, Burger King, carls Jr and it's pretty rare I see a car in the drive thru. We live in an area with a big population. The only "fast" food near us I see busy is Panda and Cafe Rio. They tried making a drive thru meal for two cost $35 it just doesn't work anymore. When you can cook lunch and dinner at home for the same cost

Any kind of cheaper restaurant in any big expensive city (NYC, Boston, Miami etc). It's become impossible to be a low-cost, low-price local restaurant. You know, the local family mexican or italian restaurant with $12 entrees, those kinda places. They are all raising their prices to the median now because rent is now a much larger portion of their costs. It used to be that they were able to remain cheap by keeping ingredient and labor costs low, but that simply doesn't matter much now. Saving $1,500 a month on ingredients doesn't mean jack shit when your rent has gone from $6,000 to $14,000 in five years.

Sit down restaurants are slowly going away and only doing take out options

Restaurants ( non-chain) Gonna be a bloodbath with higher rents, higher wages, and food costs in any place that still has an economy

It goes deeper. Young people are engaging in significantly less risky behaviors than 10 or 20 years ago. The CDC's (YRBS) \[[link removed] survey (Youth Risk Behavior) shows a \~15% decline in high schoolers reporting ever having sex (2013-2023), a 13% decline in alcohol, and 5% point decline in marijuana use, a 6% decline in "illicit" drug use. Numbers vary by demographics, though, as some populations are more "risky' than others. There is, unfortunately, an increase in sexual violence (2%) and rape (3%). A 14% increase in "hopelessness" (female, 7% male), a 5% increase in suicidal thoughts (female, 2% male). 4% increase in "made a plan" for suicide (female, 2% male), and a 2% increase in attempts (female, 1% male). edit: link

Posting this as someone who works for one of the top liquor suppliers in the world, their number one focus is to get Gen Z to drink. They are so worried about not being able to transition into the new generation. Everyone is moving to RTDs because that’s where the market is moving. Beer and wine are in a free fall, and you’re seeing hard liquor continue to drop consistently. This pressure has also fostered an incredibly toxic work environment for the entire industry, so if you’re thinking about joining a liquor distributor or supplier, I’m warning you now to stay the hell away. It’s such a miserable experience, and people are leaving in droves.

Alcohol. The younger generations don't drink like we did, and the crazy prices at bars/clubs further reinforce this.

To your first point: are you saying people aren’t drinking as much? If so, this surprises me bc alcohol sales tend to stay pretty level through most economic downturns.

I love pretty much anything alcoholic, but with the rising prices, closing local-owned bars, and lack of shared free time with friends, I barely drink at all. I probably drink more nonalcoholic beer than anything with alcohol now, just because I don't have to plan around sleep or driving

Travel agents. I’m always surprised there are still so many of them around, but their clientele are definitely disappearing. When the baby boomers die out, no one will need a travel agent anymore. EDIT: I stand corrected; there are still some good use cases for having a travel agent, but the business is becoming more specialized, catering to group travel, business travel, and luxury niche trips. A good agent can be worth their weight in gold when things go wrong.

Bingo. The amount of helicopter flights in my area for routine ALS calls is astronomical.

The bingo industry after the boomers are gone

Well digging is a big one. As a yong person that made it to rural home ownership I heard how much money one could make with a rig. Unfortunately the licensing requirements are unrealistic so the void remains around here.

100%, I was actually looking into starting a well digging business as I plan to move to a more rural area in a few years. Getting into it would require me to take a MASSIVE paycut for years to learn the trade. Then finance a $700k used rig. Not to mention despite what a professional might say, it is a skilled job where a lot can go wrong if you don't know what you are doing. I can't justify working close to minimum wage for years to maybe start a business one day unfortunately.

As someone in automotive engineering ( we design welding moulds.) I can tell you the whole automotive industry is not doing great.

Work in TV, every show would need transcribing services for delivery/ subtitles and what not. AI does it in seconds with timecode and is scary accurate.

Telephone switchboard operators? Milkmen? Ice delivery men? To tell you the truth, I think everybody will be considered obsolete except the billionaires in charge when AI and robots take over.

Irrigation agriculture and beef feedlots over the Ogallala Aquifer. It is rapidly being depleted and those areas will be in a deep economic decline. Also, the Ogallal areas produce like 25% of USA's grain and beef.

The dairy industry in NA is heavily subsidized by the government and has only been profitable like 2 of the last 20 years. Lot of money to artificially inseminate cows against their will, turn their babies into veal, confine them for years and milk them until their udders bleed.

AI. I don't want to see family farm lands being stripped for Data Centers.

YEP A few years ago, I was working in a large warehouse with a staff of hundreds, many of whom spoke other languages. We hired interpreters and had them on-site 24/7 for the four most commonly spoken languages. The service was very expensive, but the company was afraid that a poor translation during an injury or something could result in an even more expensive lawsuit. A while back, they started using translation devices and AI-powered translation; now they only bring in a couple of interpreters when someone needs to sign legal documents and things like that. OH and also for the deaf, for some reason not having one is a violation of the ADA even though you could just write back and forth on paper or a computer - idk.

They only sell food processors from 6am to noon, then they ship them to a warehouse to prepare for all the mid day online orders that get them with 2 hour shipping. Duh. /s

Fossil fuel industry when they finally start getting sued.

Personal training Not on the verge of collapse as such, but a huge change is happening. With information readily available, and younger people being more fitnesss savvy, there isn't as much of a need for a average PT now. However, PT's who have undergone additional quals for medical conditions will still have a place. There is also a huge shift to "online PT", which is very unregulated, unfortunately. Insurance not required, it seems! I say this as someone who works in industry, and also the education side of industry.

Yeah I totally agree. Millennials got so much anti tobacco messaging that we stayed away from it. Gen Z didn’t and now they are vaping like crazy. Later some Gen will be uninformed about alcohol and will drink like fish I’m sure

I tattoo a teacher who has said pretty much the same thing. She said it's scary how awful everything has become. She hates her students (high schoolers), the admins, the parents. It's scary to think what the repercussions will be.

The wedding industry. Are We Dating The Same Guy is recording and cataloguing every action a man takes, which makes all women distrust every man and the level of stalking that is coming to light is making every man distrust all women so no one is ever going to want a life with anyone ever again.

The paper industry. I watched this documentary in Scranton, and those guys are barely hanging on. Part of it is mismanagement, but still. The boss doesn't seem to know he's in a dead industry, and they seem to hang on strictly with "customer service." One dude even left to try out for the Fantastic Four. He didn't make it, though.

Aerospace. A lot of the work force is close to retirement, many are retiring early, the whole place runs on tribal knowledge you can't find anywhere online, high burnout rate so young people are leaving too, and the place is being held together by skeleton crews reading old sticky notes and files on computers that still run windows XP hoping that it doesn't get wiped. And no, they don't care to have someone write this knowledge down and instruction guides on weird equipment we use from the 80s because they're rushing to get shit done due to bad management across the board delaying the work so their quarter numbers look good.

Aluminium utensils manufacturing

Thanks to a big storm, and probably at home streaming. My city of about 47,000 people have no movie theaters.

This isn't a 4chan vs reddit. 4chan was full of just anonymous posting and engagement. No real news or forums discussed the collapse of gaming back in 2005, and even up until now it's just on apparently 4chan and reddit. They were all reporting on the gaming boom and how it was overtaking cinema and generating record breaking profits year on year.

Voice acting. Everyone will go with AI so they don't have to deal with SAG and the insufferable people in it.

AAA games refusing to lower budgets so when the generic slop doesnt sell the company dies. indie games being 'le spritual successor with no heart' slop then crying when their asset flip doesnt sell... i i hate it

Maybe it’s not a secret, but the gaming industry is collapsing. The market is oversaturated. There’s too much supply for the demand. AI slop, thousands of indie games, and other distractions like netflix and social media has made the industry too risky. The result is that game studios cannot predictably release a successful game and get investments. With all these studios failing, game developers cannot find reliable employment and are being forced out of the industry.

> maybe just my old man bias, but the disregard for local "couch" multiplayer is so misguided. Video games are intended to be a social activity, like casual sports. Going over to a friend's house and gaming with them is a much more personal connection than throwing on a movie or television show. Hear fucking hear! Me and my buddy get together for a coop gaming session every few months, and one thing that's struck me is how we're stuck playing games from the wii, x360 and PS3 era because that's the last time couch coop was regularly supported? It's insane.

Why is that ridiculous? Every millennial kid went home, then turned on MSN Messenger, or torrenting, or video games, etc. We typed, trouble shooted, created, played with Adobe and Darkroom? We taught ourselves to code? Why do kids need to learn computers in school. This is so insanely dumb.

There's so much theory that goes into actual good design. People barely know what they want, how the hell are they gonna be able to prompt a chatbot to create a design that looks legit? Generative AI also doesn't create anything from scratch. It's an ouroboros that recycles imagery that's already out there. It won't replace graphic design as if it does, all branding will look nearly identical at some point. The whole "what if it does" argument doesn't work because we don't know when and if that will happen. Like what if the sun explodes tomorrow? Might sound harsh but if anything, designers should see what AI is producing and take that as a sign to "get gud". Generic Fiverr design ain't gonna get you far.

Web development. Graphic design is right behind it.

I tink it's a bit of a difference between those things. In Programming, you need to make a code that makes something work. Of course, you have best practices, clean code, etc etc, but as long as the product *works*™, nobody gives a crap. In graphic design, it's all about looks. Even if Claude can make something that looks decent (in a vacuum, designs made by it aren't really *bad*, they are just generic), most companies want to make something that differentiates them from the rest of their competition, and for that you need someone that knows what to do, or at least a bit. Those persons can use pen and paper to design the brand identity or they can just go and use their favourite AI, but you are paying them to make you *different* from the rest.

Hate to break it to you but almost all graphic design is just ripping off others work that has come before it. It evolves over decades, sure, but let's not pretend 90% of it isn't just cannibalizing the most popular current styles and techniques. Corporate isn't interested in pushing artistic boundaries. It's interested in what has proven to work.

I was master electrician at a LORT B until 2017 and then left the industry entirely. The writing has been on the walls for years, and I was a in Sarasota FL which was historically considered very artistic. But young people don’t want to go see regional theater, they only want to see broadway or broadway tours

Is musical theater really so American?

Symphony Orchestras. Musical theater. The performing arts in general.

Radio. I know a lot of people don’t think about it but there are still a decent amount of people that listen to it. I’m pretty sure a lot of people know that it’s going down hill, but I don’t think they understand how FAST it’s going down hill. I worked for 2 radio companies and 8 stations in total. IHeart Radio and Forever Media. I always dreamed about working in radio being able to meet artists, becoming a personality, an engineer, all of it. When I arrived it was so depressing to see what it really was. Unless you are in a BIG city, like Philly, New York, Cleveland, etc., you’re SOL. I’m in Pittsburgh, which isn’t a BIG city, but I feel like it’s pretty well populated. I worked for 7 years in radio. I have seen 100 artists walk through station doors. Most of those were pre covid. All of the personalities aren’t even at most stations anymore, everything is broadcast from a different location if it’s something big wigged, or it’s prerecorded. When I worked at Forever Media, there were 7 personalities. There is now only 1 left who’s about to retire, and they don’t plan on hiring anyone else. Audio Engineers are diminishing RAPIDLY. Traffic (or the ones who place commercials between songs called “spots”) is non existent. It’s all done AI now with only a few people adjusting where spots go. Fine tuning that still somehow does NOT work lol. I can’t tell you how many more pissed business clients I had since this was put in place. Finally, sales people are just gone practically. Yes, sales jobs will never go away but people will. The IHeart station I worked at had 2 floors worth of sales people. I’m talking 50 people, 4 managers, 1 General sales manager, regional counting on the size of the station, and your sales people. And the end of my tenure there were 2 people left. Both ready to retire. It’s sad to see that side of the music industry die. Again I know that everyone knows it’s in the decline, but I don’t think people really understand how bad it is.

The music Industry. Nobody knows what they are doing. Just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. And with AI 'artists' taking premium playlist slots, the art will die, and nobody will know if its an AI slop song or made from a real artist. UNLESS they can regulate it.. but why regulate it when its cheaper to promote AI??? ;(

Music industry, I guess. Especially, hip hop and we all are pretending as if all is well.

the music industry does not know how threatened they are by AI.

Fred Rogers really was one of a kind. I don't think anyone should try to *be* the next Fred Rogers. But I do think his torch is carried by hundreds of educators, child psychologists, curriculum specialists, producers, writers, animators, musicians, and researchers working behind the scenes on PBS KIDS every day. Shows like *Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood*, *Molly of Denali*, *Work It Out Wombats!*, *Lyla in the Loop*, and *Carl the Collector* are intentionally designed around child development and learning research. (That matters in the only developed country without universal pre-K!) Out of curiosity, where in "the hinterlands" are you? No matter where you are in the US, there should be a local PBS station serving you.

Yeah, but there will be a whole lot less of it if there's no way to pay even the cheapest rent doing it - the animation industry is wildly underfunded to the point that almost nothing is being made because investors have been convinced they'll be able to click a button and AI will make it for free if they just keep holding out for the tech to advance.

Being in AI and Automation, call centers, processors, underwriters, Analysts, any customer-facing interaction, animators, marketing and advertising, web developers, developers, operators/operations, and middle management. Basically any repeatable process.

The Arts and Culture sector are dying from a philanthropic standpoint. Most people have shifted their giving away to more “urgent” causes. Corporate funding moved away in 2008 and never returned. These orgs haven’t figured out / can’t fill the gap with earned income. For example, look at the lack of original/new shows on broadway (which are often workshopped by non profit theaters, ie rent at NYTW or Hamilton at the a public). I swear I hear about an opera company or Museum shuttering every week

Public schools. Seeds are being sown all across the country (primarily in red states) to divert public education dollars to politically connected individuals. Check out what is happening in Florida with DeSantis’s pals. While charters in FL are technically not-for-profit, the law allows nonprofit charter governing boards to enter into contract with for-profit companies to manage day-to-day operations.

Before the great depression, the prevailing theory was that charitable donations would always feed and clothe the poor. But once the great depression went into its second year, charity all but disappeared. This is the main driving force behind the new deal's popularity. The great depression proved that relying on charity alone is never enough. The arts and humanities is very much like the poor. Relying on the patronage of the rich is a recipe for disaster when a deep recession hits.

Crazy how literally all of those are things that could be addressed with better social services. We don't want to fund public healthcare, but Medicare paying $3,000 for lonely Mr. Hucklebuns to take the ambulance 3x a week is totally fine.

The healthcare industry overall is absolutely collapsing, especially in Canada. Short on doctors, nurses, care aids, doctors have no time, improper diagnoses, waiting lists for months and years for surgeries and mental health services, and people dying in ER waiting rooms. It started before COVID too but had gotten much worse. Other frontline jobs are also collapsing, including CPS, care homes, social services in general. It’s actually frightening.

Libraries. A LOT of cities are on the verge of losing them if they don't get support ASAP.

Not sure if already mentioned as this thread is massive, but claims assessing jobs! I work for the fed government and the amount of AI being used to check eligibilities, legislation requirements, medical history, etc., is scary. It seems clear that things like insurance, WorkCover and TPI claims will be determined and paid by AI.

The entire federal workforce

Soldiering. Mass human on human combat is done.

The North American Mainline Christian Church….probably most have noticed but don’t realize how close it is to full collapse.

Political spin doctoring staff are starting to feel the crunch, the last 2 generations are generally very internet savy and don't believe the news as fact like the older generations do. On the flip side they are a lot more gullible about other stuff as they grew up with it being the norm for them

People are leaving religion in droves buddy. If you look at the stats they're not just leaving protestantism.

Fast Fashion. Shein and Temu are eating everyone’s lunch but the mid-tiers brands (Gap, Express, etc) are bleeding cash. One more supply chain hiccup and half the mall goes dark.

95,000 in my town and there is one theater that is practically a ghost building 99% of the time used to be two theaters. we had a cinebarre which i loved but that closed and i see our other remaining one not lasting long and turned into a department store in the future

malls and shopping offline. they are all turning into apartments where I live. but that mall had such expensive stores like, Tiffany and Rolex I never went there anymore.

Picture frames. Young people are not printing and framing pictures and older people who do are dying off

Your comment brought back a lot of memories from my picture framer days. I used to do an OK business on the side from my home, too. I bought my own decent Fletcher cutter and a bunch of basic matboard and would drum up business by posting on the local fliers on campus near the art and photography studios. I used to take pride in doing the fancy corners like you describe, especially with double mats. I didn't have the tools at home for those, so only did them at work! Some of my friends and family have stuff I framed using the good archival materials and UV glass. It's been 30+ years for some of them and the mat bevels are still fresh white and the pictures haven't faded! Glad the stuff worked!

Michaels art store will go bankrupt within a year or two. I bet a million on it.

Natural diamonds. As lab diamonds continue to gain popularity, the demand for natural diamonds is decreasing.

The diamond and gemstone industry. Lab diamonds have caused the mined diamond industry prices to tank by 95%.

Diamond hands that shit