Asian American Unemployment Up v Everyone Else
A generation optimized for high-status knowledge work without building ownership, distribution, or real leverage is structurally vulnerable.
When a labor strategy centers on being the most efficient employee inside someone else’s machine, automation eventually erases the edge. The proof of concept is already visible across Western tech and finance: layoffs, compression of entry-level white-collar roles, and AI absorbing mid-tier tasks that once required years of training.
The future premium won’t be on technical obedience to existing systems.
It will be on agency, asymmetric thinking, and building what AI cannot commoditize. The question isn’t who rose within the old system.
It’s who adapts when the system itself mutates.
If you understand this. You will realize how truly ‘special’ I am.
