Not in my case, at all.
I arguably type more than a programmer, since one of my jobs is being a translator. To my shame, I never learned to touch-type, and I am relatively inefficient, but not inefficient enough to not be able to perform my job. At any rate, even after writing several thousand words per day, every day, 6 to 7 days a week, for the last 15 years or so, I still hunt-and-peck. I can maybe keep up 2-3 words without looking at the keyboard, but then it becomes gibberish. The whole thing could be complicated by using several keyboard layouts (German, US English, Romanian, also currently just starting to learn Danish keyboard layout). Or maybe I'm broken, and can't touch type no matter what.

At my current age, nearing 50, it becomes less important to re-learn how I type, compared to being able to perform with what I'm used to. Yes, I regret I hadn't learned this skill 30 or even 20 years ago, but it is what it is.

1. I never said I pirate those movies or TV series. What I said is that many of them are not available to me in any legal way. No more, no less.
2. Um, yeah... you pirate as well. Rationalizing what you do is not going to make it legal. You lie about your location in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable services.

That's not entirely correct.
Here's a real life example. Almost all of my top 50 favorite movies and TV shows are spread across no less than 8 (eight) streaming services. 41 of them have no option of pay-per-view, forcing me to pay subscriptions to watch them. 21 of them are not available in my country through any legal option due to geofencing, exclusivity rights, other bullshit (to me, as a customer) reasons.

Worth mentioning none of those are actually ultra-rare, as a matter of fact they are all well-known movies and TV shows. Some of them could be considered "cult classics" in their genre.

Just a few examples, no point in getting the whole list: Jericho, Serenity, Firefly, Dogma. I can't watch any of them legally.

Let's not confuse greed with stupidity.

What country would that be?

Yes, but the point was that very, very few countries use a non metric system as their primary measurement system because they just don't see a point in making their lives unnecessarily complicated. If I can choose between using metric for everything and using a mishmash of metric and other arcane measurement systems I'm going to choose pure metric every time.

... and then get robbed by Amazon on shipping.

I've had a handful of tools sold to me on Temu and AliExpress that weren't quite up to snuff but the rest performed as expect. The first thing an Asian online shopper will tell you is read the reviews and pay particular attention to the negative ones and the ones with photographs and if you stick to that you'll generally get what you pay for. I suppose we can now add Slavic countries to that list.

That is only a problem for the three countries that still predominantly use the antiquated imperial system of measurement: United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.

I know what Shein, Temu and AliExpress are like and I just got used to it because I know that these sales tactics are pretty normal in parts of Asia. Having said that I'd still rather buy this 'cheap sheit' directly from Shein, Temu and AliExpress rather than 'entrepreneurs' in the West who add a 1-500% markup on the exact same 'cheap sheit' which they buy directly from Chinese factories for even less than Shein, Temu and AliExpress charge. Some of the more brazen Western resellers just source their stuff from the Shein, Temu and AliExpress web sites from the comfort of their home office, sell it to you at a huge markup and don't even bother to take the item out of the Chinese packaging before forwarding it to you. A lot of western retail these days is basically just an obscenely overpriced personal shopping service so why not just buy from as close to the source as possible and cut out these parasites? Finally, a lot of this 'cheap sheit' actually isn't 'sheit'. The quality of most of the stuff I get from Shein, Temu and AliExpress is actually quite decent.

I call this "Captain of Industry": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com...

So the ten dimensional chess master has finally figured out that the man's name isn't 'Tim Apple' ... I suppose that's progress.

Most hypotheses cannot be tested, but inferred.
You cannot TEST how the primitive people lived their lives, for example.
Same goes for extrapolating various events into the future, especially those happening at very large scales.

If your answer to all of those is "so what?", well, the problem is you, then.

Define "untestable hypothesis".

Not really, automation has been going on for a very long time, it may be speeding up now because of AI but automation it's nothing new. What this will likely do in the short to medium term is increase the amount of education people are going to have to get and change the kind of education they will need. Forecasting what AI will do to employment long term is above my pay grade.

As long as I have been in the IT business this has been a problem. Companies are constantly SCREAMING for experienced skilled labor but nobody wants to provide young workers with the opportunity and experience they need to acquire those skills. If you are graduating in this day and age, expect dozens, or even more depressingly, hundreds of answers like; "go work for company X that still offers entry level positions, work there for a few years and then come to us and we'll be happy to hire you" from companies run by clever CEOs who aren't offering entry level positions but that's OK because everybody else is and they them clever selves can just poach from those dummies. In the end the CEO class will have to decide whether they are willing to do what it takes to generate that new skilled and experienced labor and punish the parasites that don't participate in that effort or whether they really can replace all IT labor with chat bots and robots. If those predictions that AI will end all human labor by 2027 come true that latter option should be the easy one.