NYC may be one of the blue-est states in north america, but it would be one of the Red-est counties in countries like canada, most of europe etc. (also depending when you look at america historically as economically, the states have been becoming more and more conservative for the past century or so)
As a software engineer who existing limited tools daily: actually programmers will definitly be gone. i do think there will be something along the lines of "llm supervisor"/ "Person who fixes bugs in llm code that it cant" but such a drastically lower number of them.
like probably for every 100 programmers now there will be a few.. and it will mostly be the engineers not developers. most developers right now are given a series of bug or simple feature request tickets that LLM's now can do the majority of the work on. i cant imageine in 5-10 years
as someone just leaving america for another country: the majority of americans. not all, but the majority
we have great solutions to all but the preaching called "social safety nets" nobody grows up wanting to be a bum, and people are violent when times are rough.