Given that $100k is the income bracket where people are highly leveraged on college loans (and housing prices), it makes sense that they are often more sensitive to economic conditions than those working lower-income jobs.

You NEED a strong economy to stay above water on the debt — you took out $200k in college + law school loans to accelerate your career and if you can't get a high-income job in your specialty you simply can't fall back to a low-income job without being in crushing debt forever.

I run a big division of a big org.

Given the desire and investment in project/process, we could probably take half of the $100k+ workforce and replace with automation and a dumber, cheaper workforce. Economic crises often drive those decisions.

High income people are the least safe - $300k doctors are being treated like factory workers and replaced by $125k nurse practitioners.

> we could probably take half of the $100k+ workforce and replace with automation and a dumber, cheaper workforce.

That's basically what i'm doing. I was at first automating a secretary's job, now i'm automating my "SRE and security manager" job. With some resistance, so i'm starting with the most boring part of his job, but my goal is to automate him away. It's my secret, secondary job description. I hope i do that within a year.

Does this seem messed up to anyone else ? Yes it’s an inevitability and it’s nothing that hasn’t been done before but damn