I attempted to solve the spiraling problem of declining wages by moving to the US state with the cheapest housing. The scary part is--I am one of the lucky ones. I work part-time as a technical editor--and I had to kiss a lot of frogs to get there--and my husband (who is 73) still works at a University. Our house and 2 cars are paid off. And yet...we still worry about our income and future. I honestly don't know how other Americans--the ones who don't have 3 master's degrees between them--are making it. It is easy for some to make the argument that AI will reshape the economy for good but all I see is this: first, I began competing with overseas labor, then with someone young enough to be an indentured servant paying off student loans. Now, I'm competing with what is essentially slave labor. The rates for AI are so low they will become a class of slave robots.