When I was a kid every educated person was convinced that the world would suffer from incredible starvation due to overpopulation by the year 2000. Now I would say the majority of people on HN think that general AI will replace almost all work in our lifetimes.

Maybe. Progress in AI has been fast recently, but it has not always progressed at a constant pace. And meanwhile in the US we have very high employment and a national shortage of truck drivers.