Wealth Awakening
AI Is Here — Salary Workers Have Only a 3-Year Window: How to Rescue Your Future
Five years ago I thought: as long as I worked hard enough, put in enough overtime, and learned enough skills, my life was set. Then a friend who spent three years passing the bar after graduating from law school watched his firm start using AI to review contracts — the AI finished in two hours what an intern used to need a week for — and his boss said, "We're not hiring this year." This isn't an isolated case. It's the beginning of the Agentic AI era. This article breaks down why the salary path is being hollowed out, why AI hits high-paid white-collar workers first, where you should put your money, and what your kids should learn — the key choices ordinary people can make in this 3-year window.