Beamer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 22:06:

jdreyer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 18:27:

Beamer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 14:19:
The Lowe's CEO recently said that his advice to young people is to stay out of the boardroom and close to the cash register. He went on to clarify that he meant going into roofing or carpentry, as AI can't replace that, but still - white collar jobs have been the way to moving up in class for generations, and now the people at the very top are saying that you should instead be working the hourly retail jobs?

The trades, not retail. Retail will be gone shortly.

He still said "stay close to the cash register." The trades don't have cash registers. Your local Lowe's does. Minimum wage or thereabouts

But I'm forced to scan and bag my own EVERYTHING from groceries to sundries to hardware and even clothes at Kohl's. So I'm already forced to "stay close to the cash register". This guy probably hasn't done his own shopping since 2020.

jdreyer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 18:27:

Beamer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 14:19:
The Lowe's CEO recently said that his advice to young people is to stay out of the boardroom and close to the cash register. He went on to clarify that he meant going into roofing or carpentry, as AI can't replace that, but still - white collar jobs have been the way to moving up in class for generations, and now the people at the very top are saying that you should instead be working the hourly retail jobs?

The trades, not retail. Retail will be gone shortly.

He still said "stay close to the cash register." The trades don't have cash registers. Your local Lowe's does. Minimum wage or thereabouts

Beamer wrote on Jun 19, 2025, 14:19:
The Lowe's CEO recently said that his advice to young people is to stay out of the boardroom and close to the cash register. He went on to clarify that he meant going into roofing or carpentry, as AI can't replace that, but still - white collar jobs have been the way to moving up in class for generations, and now the people at the very top are saying that you should instead be working the hourly retail jobs?

The trades, not retail. Retail will be gone shortly.

Translation: It's way too much and we're kind of ashamed of it.

My experience over the last 5 years with AI and "white collar" executives, while a small sample size, is that the executives have no damn idea what they are doing with it. They don't understand it, they don't understand why it isn't working for them as well as the techies told them it would, and they can see for themselves that its strengths are not manual labor. So, a CEO from anywhere saying something like that doesn't surprise me in the least. These "leaders" are lost at sea, blaming whatever they can for their lost investment, inability to apply the technology productively, and inability to acknowledge what the AI tech actually is: Premature and flawed.

"Hey kids, I know I am a billionaire, but this AI stuff...trust me...you don't want my job."
Uh huh.

The Lowe's CEO recently said that his advice to young people is to stay out of the boardroom and close to the cash register. He went on to clarify that he meant going into roofing or carpentry, as AI can't replace that, but still - white collar jobs have been the way to moving up in class for generations, and now the people at the very top are saying that you should instead be working the hourly retail jobs?

Ohh, he will stiff somebody with the bill again, I'm sure. Musk will be fine, the planet and some equity investment holder's will be screwed though.

xAI is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — AI project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures - Tom's Hardware

Hey, destroying the environment isn't cheap you know...