The superpeso rollercoaster: not just a ride for expats

Published May 14, 2023

I don’t know about you all, but this weakening dollar business is getting me all kinds of nervous: it was down close to 17.50 pesos as of earlier this week and could still be on its way down.

Things are getting tight.

Pair it with the inevitable march of AI ready to very soon render my marketable work skills (writing, editing, translating) worthless, and it’s a wonder I’m not in full-blown panic mode.

I mean, just give me a little time.

As much as people try to assure me that AI isn’t all that good and that people will “always value good work produced by real people,” the writing’s, quite literally, on the wall: AI is improving, and fast, and no company is going to say to itself, “Gee, I think paying people lots of money to do these things that machines could do for almost free and instantaneously is the better way to go.”

For now, I’m working while I still can and hoping that the future won’t be as grim for working people like me as it seems. The money I earn, meanwhile, is worth less and less with literally every day that goes by.

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