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THESE JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR FIRST!

March 20, 2026 / 02:17

This episode discusses the future of occupations, focusing on the potential decline of traditional roles like lawyers due to advancements in AI. Guests discuss how AI tools, such as Claude, can replace some legal functions, making legal services more accessible and affordable.

One guest shares a personal experience where they resolved a legal issue using AI, highlighting the cost difference compared to hiring a law firm. They emphasize that lawyers may need to adapt their roles to remain relevant in a changing economy.

The conversation also touches on the shifting value of blue-collar jobs, suggesting that trades like plumbing may become more lucrative than white-collar professions. The guests reflect on the cyclical nature of job value and the importance of adapting to economic changes.

TLDR

AI may disrupt traditional jobs like lawyers, elevating trades instead.

Episode

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And it could be in the next couple of years. These are the roles that are elevated the most and that plumbers
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regularly earn more than lawyers. >> What are the occupations that you genuinely believe won't exist 5 years
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from now? >> All of them. All occupations won't exist 5 years from now as we know them.
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>> People say lawyers are going to be disrupted. Well, well, I recently had a
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law legal case that I had to resolve and it was going to cost us £50,000, so $60,000
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uh as a start the process with a law firm. We took matters into our own hands and we used Claude and we actually fixed
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the process and resolve the process by spending $20 a month. and Claude gave us a coaching session on how to handle it.
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Gave us multiple decision tree pathways. Gave us the documents that we would need. Gave us an Excel spreadsheet of do
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say this, don't say this in the negotiation. And it made me realize, my goodness, what a lawyer is going to do.
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Uh because if all they do [music] is charge for time for money to regurgitate contracts, I don't believe we're going
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to need these business [music] models as they currently stand. I think they're
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going to have to change and adapt. I think a lawyer needs to take a completely different shape. Part
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business coach, part lawyer, part prompt engineer. They're going to be the key
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person of AI in the room who the lawyer's job will be to work with you on your AI prompting [music] and help you
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get the resolution. You're probably going to need a lot less of a lawyer's
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time. In the last 100 years, lawyers have had a very very stable role in society and a very professional role in
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society. But unfortunately, things things do change. The nature of the economy is changing. We've seen people
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who work with their hands and people who uh turn up to your house and fix your [music] house in a devalued role and it
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could be in the next you know >> [music] >> uh couple of years these are the roles
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that are elevated the most and that plumbers regularly earn more than lawyers simply because the nature of the
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economy has changed. One thing I've learned over the last 25 years is the pendulum swings. Very few things stay
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the same. There is always this swinging pendulum and the swinging pendulum is like, oh yeah, white collar work behind
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a screen is the high value thing. Oh no, it's actually blue collar work with your
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hands. You talked about supply and demand. We now don't have many plumbers and electricians and the blue ocean is
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now being a trades person.

Episode Highlights

  • The Future of Occupations
    All occupations as we know them may not exist in five years.
    “All of them. All occupations won’t exist 5 years from now as we know them.”
    @ 00m 14s
    March 20, 2026
  • Lawyers vs. AI
    A personal experience reveals how AI can replace traditional legal services.
    “We took matters into our own hands and used Claude.”
    @ 00m 27s
    March 20, 2026
  • The Pendulum Swings
    The value of blue-collar work is rising as the economy changes.
    “Very few things stay the same. There is always this swinging pendulum.”
    @ 01m 56s
    March 20, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • What a lawyer is going to do.
    THESE JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR FIRST!
  • The nature of the economy is changing.
    THESE JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR FIRST!

Key Moments

  • Changing Roles00:14
  • AI in Law00:27
  • Economic Shift01:31

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