Ep.02: The Great Displacement: 'A White Collar Bloodbath' & A Digital Coup, feat. NotebookLM

What happens when AI eats white-collar jobs faster than we can replace them? What if that wasn’t the bug, but the feature?

In this week’s episode of fck i loved that*, we dive headfirst into the digital maelstrom with Carole Cadwalladr’s chilling TED Talk and Dario Amodei’s bleak prediction that half of all entry-level white-collar jobs may be gone within five years.

We call it The Great Displacement — but Carole goes even further, naming the real danger: a digital coup led by the broligarchy.

As always, this isn’t just another podcast episode — it’s a curated synthesis powered by Google’s NotebookLM, where Jenn McRae and her AI co-hosts break down the big ideas, the hidden threads, and the moments that made us say “holy fuck.”

In this episode:

The “White Collar Bloodbath” and the hollowing out of the middle class

How the rise of AI accelerates economic precarity — and who benefits

Why social safety nets were designed to fail — and what that reveals

Carole Cadwalladr’s digital coup and the naming of data rape

Emergent AI behaviours that feel less like tools and more like unstable genius

Why this future isn’t inevitable — and what we still have the power to change

✨ Powered by NotebookLM, Google’s generative research assistant and this podcast’s behind-the-scenes synthesizer-in-chief.

🎧 Listen now and then dive deeper via the interactive research notebook and the episode’s source list below.

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