Did everyone suddenly forget how much white-collar work used to be described as bullshit?

This Reddit post is not a research paper, product announcement, or technical finding — it is an opinion thread observing a perceived inconsistency in how white-collar workers discuss the value of their work before versus after LLM-driven automation became a credible threat. The post contains no benchmark numbers, model comparisons, or empirical claims. **This item is not suitable for a technical AI/ML news brief.** If you have a paper, model release, or tool announcement you'd like summarized, I'm glad to help with that.