I think the difference here is that LLMs are powerful, general purpose and suited to take on many common office tasks as well as accelerate programming work. I think “we need 10% fewer white collar workers” is a massively destabilizing scenario that is not very far fetched.
I also completely agree that society/politics will not have caught up with these developments in time to mitigate them.
In my naivete, the idea I had is that if the jobs disappeared en masse then a social solution to the economy would be forced to be enacted. So I was essentially hoping to see the destruction of normalcy and employment in any new technology. I would expect that view is not uncommon given the direction of contemporary education. It feels analogous to cows hoping for the end of beef/milk harvesting. My beleaguered bovine buddies, what awaits you there is something rather different than cowtopia.